 She wrote a review of 's "Die Entstehung des deutschen Bildungsprinzips" ("The Origin of German Educational Principle", 1930), which dealt with the emergence of "" (educational elite) in the time of Rahel Varnhagen.At the same time she began to be occupied by Max Weber's description of the status of Jewish people within a state as "pariavolk" (pariah people) in his "Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft" (1922), while borrowing Bernard Lazare's term "paria conscient" (conscious pariah) with which she identified.In both these articles she advanced the views of Johann Herder.