His first story, The Mysteries of the Zephaniah Family, a tale of great promise from its style and vivid descriptions.

In this book Braudes pictures in vivid colors the Orthodox and Reform camps in modern Israel.

In 1882, at the time of the anti-Semitic riots in Russia, Braudes joined the Zionist movement and became one of its foremost advocates.

To foster this idea he went to Romania, and in Bucharest began the publication of Yehudit, a weekly in Yiddish.

Theodor Herzl appointed Braudes editor of the Yiddish edition of his weekly, Die Welt.