The Frankfurt School, originally known as The Institute for Social Research, was a school of social theory founded in the Weimar Republic (Germany 1918 - 1933). It comprised intellectuals, academics, and political dissidents who sought to challenge existing power structures and economic systems with a set of ideologies and critiques collectively known as “critical theory”.

An example of a modern application is “Critical Race Theory”, which is built upon the ideas of challenging existing power structures through certain ideological analysis.

Meet a few of the original Jewish intellectuals who comprised the Frankfurt School.

EI Max Horkheimer Theodor W. Adorno* a a3} Friedrich Pollock* ¢ Otto Kirchheimer [#779 Leo Léwenthal ), Franz Neumann —

Associates of the Frankfurt School:

Erich Fromm

| Siegfried Kracauer Walter Benjamin

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Ernst Bloch

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Soon after Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the Frankfurt School moved first to Geneva, and then New York City in 1935. Eventually, it returned to West Germany in 1953, but several of the Jewish intellectuals remained in America.

*Theodor W. Adorno’s father was Jewish; his mother was not. Friedrich Pollock was raised by his father, who was an ethnically Jewish winemaker; however, his father rejected the faith of Judaism, and raised his son accordingly.

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