[2] Goldberg then attended the universities of Berlin and Munich, studying in a wide variety of fields including Eastern religious thought, folk psychiatry, psychophysics and therapeutic neuroscience.
But Solomon transformed the Jews from a cultic community into members of a state and thereby severed their organic connection to god by replacing concrete ritual with abstract theological monotheism.
Goldberg organised many research groups during his life and moved in the intellectual orbit of, among others, Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Alfred Döblin, Karl Korsch and Robert Musil.
[4] The famous religious scholar Gershom Scholem also grew to despise Goldberg, describing him as "a small fat man who looked like a stuffed dummy and who exerted an uncanny magnetic power over a group of Jewish intellectuals who gathered around him".
He later described the groups around Aby Warburg, Max Horkheimer and the Frankfurt School and Oskar Goldberg as the three most remarkable "Jewish sects" that German intellectual life ever produced.