Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community

The work of Marie Jahoda, Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Hans Zeisel was sponsored by the then newly created Psychological Institute at the University of Vienna. Each of the authors went on to extraordinary professional careers. Jahoda held positions at New York University, Brunel University, and the University of Sussex. Lazarsfeld spent the better part of his career from 1933 to his death at Columbia University in the City of New York Hans Zeisel came to the University of Chicago after the rise of Nazism.