Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Frankfurt School's Changing Analysis of Antisemitism
The Institute of Social Research was not founded as an explicitly Jewish entity. It didn't choose its members on the basis of their background, their religiosity or their ethnicity. Pollock's involvement in German leftist intellectual life is very similar to that of countless of his German Jewish counterparts. He rejected throughout his life the notion that Jewish matters had had any significant impact on him.
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