[4] The Folklore Museum of Leipzig sent Brauer to British Mandate Palestine in 1925 to collect ethnological artifacts of the Arabs living in the country.

In spite of his efforts, Brauer failed to make anthropology an area of academic interest at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, but was only able to garner support for his own private research.

[8] Brauer suffered from a rare illness (Scheuermann's disease) and died at the age of 46 in Petah Tikvah, and was buried in Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery in Givatayim.

Goitein wrote a moving eulogy of the man upon his death, published in the book Shevūt Teiman (1945),[9] saying of Brauer that he was the first scientific ethnologist in this country and the first who laid a basis for a comparative ethnology.

[11] Brauer's research in the fields of Yemenite Jewish agriculture and crafts has been translated into Hebrew and is published in Shevuth Teiman (1945), Yisrael Yeshayahu & Aharon Tzadok (ed.

Brauer's description of Jewish clothing in Yemen, as described in his monograph Ethnologie der jemenitischen Juden, has been translated into Hebrew and published in Ma'ase Rokem.

19–33, while excerpts of the same are rendered in an English translation, published in Ascending the Palm Tree (2018), Rachel Yedid & Danny Bar-Maoz (ed.