ABSTRACT
During the past decade many scholars in various fields of the humanities have devoted increased attention to the trans-territorial and transnational character of Jewish history. The chapter attempts to look at the first years of Weimar Germany from the perspective of an 'unwelcome stranger'. Initially the focus is on his experiences of otherness in Weimar Germany and the migrant milieu in Berlin. Journalist David Eynhorn observations of social and political life in Weimar Germany are then presented. On his arrival in Berlin in autumn 1920, David Eynhorn already had several years of travel behind him. Due to his political engagement for the Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund, Eynhorn had to leave Russia after six months of imprisonment at the age of twenty-six in 1912. Eynhorn's commitment to traditional Yiddishkayt and to modern industrial workers seems contradictory only at first glance. The failure of the Kultur-Lige established along the Kiev model in Berlin was all the more disappointing for Eynhorn.
