Jack Jacobs, “The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Influence of Theodore Adorno on Antisemitism
Horkheimer was not a person who devoted sustained theoretical attention to the study of antisemitism, either in the Weimar years or in his first years in America. Horkheimer became open to thinking about antisemitism in a somewhat different, somewhat more multifaceted, indeed somewhat more sophisticated way under Theodore Adorno's influence. But as the Nazis consolidated power and as the situation of Jews in Europe were seen, members of the Frankfurt School themselves encountered antisemitic behavior.
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