Creator Bio
Leo Löwenthal
1900–1993
The German-born sociologist of literature and mass culture Leo Löwenthal was associated with the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt from 1926. With the rise of Nazism, he and its other members transferred the institute to New York. After the war he remained in the United States, where he taught at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1956. As a young man in Frankfurt, he was strongly influenced by Rabbi Nehemiah Anton Nobel and was active in the Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus in its early years, but by the time he joined the Institute for Social Research he had drifted away from any serious engagement with Jewish themes.
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Heinrich Heine
[ . . . ] The Judaism into which Heine was born and with which he had to come to terms as a maturing man was the Judaism of the German reform. This was, to be sure, no longer the reform, creative in…