2025-06-15 18:50 <br/> Tags: #AmericanJewry #EarlyZionism #Harvard #people ![[image-84.png|298x391]] # Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) - Frankfurter, American Jew born in Vienna, served on the Supreme Court from 1939-1962. - Frankfurter was the top guy of [[Louis Brandeis]] and acted as his hatchet man while Brandeis was on the Supreme Court beginning in 1916. - Brandeis secured Frankfurter his position at Harvard Law in 1914 via a donation from prominent Jewish financier [[Jacob Schiff]]. - Frankfurter was instrumental in cultivating Jewish elites at Harvard. - Frankfurter through Brandeis was a leader within the [[Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)]] - Once Frankfurter was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1939 he used his own network of disciples and influential allies to further his political ambitions, much like Brandeis and much like all the power players of the past and present. - A top advisor to FDR, he used his influence with the president to insert personnel from his ideologically aligned network. <br/> - Frankfurter helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920. - The [[ACLU]] was formed in opposition to the federal government's arrest of suspected communist radicals who also happen to be Jewish. #### References - Karsh, Yousuf. _Felix Frankfurter_. Photograph. 1944. Sitting 9174, April 12. Karsh, [https://karsh.org/photographs/felix-frankfurter/](https://karsh.org/photographs/felix-frankfurter/). - Weir, Alison. _Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel_. Washington, D.C.: If Americans Knew, 2014. - _Wikipedia._“Felix Frankfurter.”. Wikipedia. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Frankfurter).