Lee Shai Weissbach
Biographic Data
| ID | 1109216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Shai Weissbach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee Shai |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissbach |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSBACH L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion and Secularism in America’s Small-Town Jewish Communities
Religion and Secularism in America’s Small-Town Jewish Communities
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
A Jewish Life on Three Continents
A Jewish Life on Three Continents
This memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden, translated, edited, and annotated by his grandson, recounts the history of the author's family back several generations and covers his life from the time of his birth in 1878 until the middle of the 20th century. It tells of Frieden's early years in a Lithuanian village; of his schooling, courtship and marriage in Eastern Europe; of his migration to and exploits in America early in the twentieth century; an…
The History of Smaller Jewish Communities
Research Article| July 01 2010 The History of Smaller Jewish Communities: Three Recent Works How Strange It Seems: The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England. By Michael Hoberman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiii + 253 pp. Photos, appendices, notes, and index. $80 (cloth); $28.95 (paper).Jews in Nevada: A History. By John P. Marschall. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008. xviii + 390 pp. Maps, photos, illustratio…
Jewish Life in Small-Town America
Jewish Life in Small-Town America
A Separate Circle
The Jews of the Republic
This book provides a highly original account of the Franco-Jewish political and administrative elite generals, politicians, judges, magistrates, and prefects from the final decades of the nineteenth century to the Vichy regime. United by an extensive network of family relations and a fierce devotion to secular republicanism, these Jews of State (the author s term to distinguish them from their predecessors, court Jews, who were more oriented towa…
The Synagogues of Kentucky
Lee Shai Weissbach's innovative study sheds light on the functioning of smaller Jewish communities in a state representative of many in the Midwest and South. The synagogue buildings of Kentucky tell much about the experience of Kentucky Jewry. Synagogues, especially in smaller towns, have often served as the only setting available for a wide variety of communal activities. Weissbach outlines the history of every congregation established in Kentu…
Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France
Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France
The Jewish Elite and the Children of the Poor
The desire of the Franco-Jewish elite to foster the acculturation of French Jewry during the nineteenth century is a theme that has been explored in considerable detail in recent years. Historians of French Jewry have described the development of an ideology that identified Judaism primarily as a religion, have analyzed the attempts of various communal institutions to mitigate Jewish distinctiveness, and have demonstrated that the leaders of Fren…
Oeuvre Industrielle, Oeuvre Morale
During the nineteenth century, as Western society began to industrialize and urbanize, countries such as France, England, and the United States found themselves faced with the very difficult question of what to do about the growing number of poor people who were haunting their cities and towns and developing an unsettling culture of poverty. The patrician classes who dominated the industrializing countries of the West recognized that there was a …
Entrepreneurial Traditionalism in Nineteenth-Century France
The late nineteenth century was a critical epoch in the history of French industry. During this period, many French industrialists adopted, for the first time, entrepreneurial attitudes towards business. At the same time, however, traditional skilled trades continued to play an important role in the national economy. In this article, Professor Weissbach explores the attitudes and practices of nineteenth-century entrepreneurs in the French luxury …
Artisanal Responses to Artistic Decline
Journal Article Artisanal Responses to Artistic Decline: The Cabinetmakers of Paris in the Era of Industrialization Get access Lee Shai Weissbach Lee Shai Weissbach University of Louisiville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 2, Winter 1982, Pages 67–81, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.2.67 Published: 01 December 1982
Child Labor Legislation in Nineteenth-Century France
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Oeuvre Industrielle, Oeuvre Morale
During the nineteenth century, as Western society began to industrialize and urbanize, countries such as France, England, and the United States found themselves faced with the very difficult question of what to do about the growing number of poor people who were haunting their cities and towns and developing an unsettling culture of poverty. The patrician classes who dominated the industrializing countries of the West recognized that there was a …
Entrepreneurial Traditionalism in Nineteenth-Century France
The late nineteenth century was a critical epoch in the history of French industry. During this period, many French industrialists adopted, for the first time, entrepreneurial attitudes towards business. At the same time, however, traditional skilled trades continued to play an important role in the national economy. In this article, Professor Weissbach explores the attitudes and practices of nineteenth-century entrepreneurs in the French luxury …
Artisanal Responses to Artistic Decline
Journal Article Artisanal Responses to Artistic Decline: The Cabinetmakers of Paris in the Era of Industrialization Get access Lee Shai Weissbach Lee Shai Weissbach University of Louisiville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 2, Winter 1982, Pages 67–81, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.2.67 Published: 01 December 1982
Child Labor Legislation in Nineteenth-Century France
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Artisanal Responses to Artistic Decline
Journal Article Artisanal Responses to Artistic Decline: The Cabinetmakers of Paris in the Era of Industrialization Get access Lee Shai Weissbach Lee Shai Weissbach University of Louisiville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 16, Issue 2, Winter 1982, Pages 67–81, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/16.2.67 Published: 01 December 1982
Entrepreneurial Traditionalism in Nineteenth-Century France
The late nineteenth century was a critical epoch in the history of French industry. During this period, many French industrialists adopted, for the first time, entrepreneurial attitudes towards business. At the same time, however, traditional skilled trades continued to play an important role in the national economy. In this article, Professor Weissbach explores the attitudes and practices of nineteenth-century entrepreneurs in the French luxury …
The Jewish Elite and the Children of the Poor
The desire of the Franco-Jewish elite to foster the acculturation of French Jewry during the nineteenth century is a theme that has been explored in considerable detail in recent years. Historians of French Jewry have described the development of an ideology that identified Judaism primarily as a religion, have analyzed the attempts of various communal institutions to mitigate Jewish distinctiveness, and have demonstrated that the leaders of Fren…
Oeuvre Industrielle, Oeuvre Morale
During the nineteenth century, as Western society began to industrialize and urbanize, countries such as France, England, and the United States found themselves faced with the very difficult question of what to do about the growing number of poor people who were haunting their cities and towns and developing an unsettling culture of poverty. The patrician classes who dominated the industrializing countries of the West recognized that there was a …
Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France
Child Labor Reform in Nineteenth-Century France
The Synagogues of Kentucky
Lee Shai Weissbach's innovative study sheds light on the functioning of smaller Jewish communities in a state representative of many in the Midwest and South. The synagogue buildings of Kentucky tell much about the experience of Kentucky Jewry. Synagogues, especially in smaller towns, have often served as the only setting available for a wide variety of communal activities. Weissbach outlines the history of every congregation established in Kentu…
The Jews of the Republic
This book provides a highly original account of the Franco-Jewish political and administrative elite generals, politicians, judges, magistrates, and prefects from the final decades of the nineteenth century to the Vichy regime. United by an extensive network of family relations and a fierce devotion to secular republicanism, these Jews of State (the author s term to distinguish them from their predecessors, court Jews, who were more oriented towa…
A Separate Circle
Jewish Life in Small-Town America
Jewish Life in Small-Town America
The History of Smaller Jewish Communities
Research Article| July 01 2010 The History of Smaller Jewish Communities: Three Recent Works How Strange It Seems: The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England. By Michael Hoberman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xiii + 253 pp. Photos, appendices, notes, and index. $80 (cloth); $28.95 (paper).Jews in Nevada: A History. By John P. Marschall. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2008. xviii + 390 pp. Maps, photos, illustratio…
A Jewish Life on Three Continents
A Jewish Life on Three Continents
This memoir of Menachem Mendel Frieden, translated, edited, and annotated by his grandson, recounts the history of the author's family back several generations and covers his life from the time of his birth in 1878 until the middle of the 20th century. It tells of Frieden's early years in a Lithuanian village; of his schooling, courtship and marriage in Eastern Europe; of his migration to and exploits in America early in the twentieth century; an…
Religion and Secularism in America’s Small-Town Jewish Communities
Religion and Secularism in America’s Small-Town Jewish Communities
et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France.Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit
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