Max Weber, a Russian-born Jewish painter who became one of the pioneers of modern art in the United States, died yesterday at his home in Great Neck, N.Y. at the age of 80. His paintings on Hebraic, ...

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

Just to set the record straight — and who doesn’t want to hike deep into the tall weeds of literary origin? — the sociologist Max Weber didn’t coin the term “elective affinities.” He borrowed it from ...