Wartime foundations stopped funding Jewish causes right as antisemitism was expected to surge

Evidence

The prospects are, of course, not very good at present. In the first place anti-Semitism had definitely receded into the background. In the second place many foundations will utilize their funds and abilities exclusively for war effort (Carnegie Corporation has already announced it). This view is, of course, shortsighted since there is not the slightest doubt that either during the war or certainly after it anti-Semitism will become much more powerful than even before because it will be fused with a definitely Fascist movement. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1488

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the structural argument about how funding cycles and war mobilization historically intersect with Jewish vulnerability — parallels work on institutional funding politics. — connects to: Antisemitism peaked after Jews had already lost economic influence; The commonsense antisemitism-explains-Holocaust causal link collapses under scrutiny. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 114; Jews were most reviled when their actual influence was declining (+1 more)
• QUESTION: The Institute’s prediction that postwar antisemitism would fuse with Fascism — was this borne out, or did the postwar reconstruction alter the trajectory?

Broader Connections

• Jews were most reviled when their actual influence was declining #expands (0.80)
• Antisemitism peaked after Jews had already lost economic influence #expands (0.75)
• Antisemitism persisted even after its economic basis vanished #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 527
• The commonsense antisemitism-explains-Holocaust causal link collapses under scrutiny. #expands (0.70) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 114