ABSTRACT
Communication links between New York and Berlin proved to be far more reliable and faster than links with such capitals as Kaunas and Riga. The Berlin Forverts bureau remains a unique case of such an influential outpost of a Yiddish newspaper. Although several Jewish newspapers had permanent correspondents in Berlin, the Forverts bureau remained the strongest Yiddish journalistic body for the whole Weimar period. The bureau's establishment was part of the general development of infrastructure which was characteristic of the 1920s, the heyday of Forverts and the Yiddish press in general. In 1922, Baruch Charney Vladeck was proud to inform readers that their newspaper employed thousands of people and that no other newspaper in the United States could boast the same number of local offices. Ultimately, the word entered Yiddish usage as part and parcel of German-derived socialist terminology, including the term of address genose.
