ABSTRACT
Sore Brener was the pseudonym of renowned Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, who lived in Germany as a university student from 1919 to 1923. The journalistic treatment of contemporary issues in Germany from an explicitly Yiddish point of view as contained in the literary output of Sore Brener, however, offers new insight into life in the Weimar Republic for the Ostjuden who were there temporarily. And a new perspective on the relevance of German politics and culture for Jews both in America and in eastern Europe; Weinreich's popular writing under the name of Sore Brener and his correspondence with Abraham Cahan concerning it offer valuable new information about Weinreich's own life and studies in Germany. The centrality of Ernst Toller's plays to the concerns of Weinreich's journalistic activity for Forverts in Germany arises from Toller's involvement in and literary commentary on contemporary events in post-World War I Germany, especially the German Revolution of 1919.
