List of Interview Questions Pertaining to Jews
Theodor Adorno
1950
Do you think there is a Jewish problem? If yes, in what sense? Do you care about it?
Have you had any experience with Jews? What kind? Do you remember names of persons involved and other specific data?
If not, on what is your opinion based?
Did you have any contrary experiences (or hear about such experiences) with Jewish individuals?
If you had…
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Creator Bio
Theodor Adorno
Born in Frankfurt am Main to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father who had converted to Protestantism, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno was a leading scholar of the Frankfurt School. Though Adorno was inspired by revolutionary thought and leftist ideals, his interests remained primarily theoretical. During World War II, Adorno immigrated first to the United Kingdom and then to the United States, where he worked at the University of California at Berkeley. He returned to Europe in 1949, helping to restart the Institute for Social Research and renew German intellectual culture in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Adorno’s contributions to twentieth-century thought include many influential sociological and critical studies of fascism and popular culture.