sentences:  He wrote several novels and plays, but remained a consistently strong writer of novellas and short stories.After the death of Peretz in 1915, Weissenberg became a major force in Polish Yiddish publishing, taking over Peretz's role as promoter of young talent and editor and publisher of periodicals and books.He expended much of his energy during the 1920s and 1930s in fighting battles within Yiddish-speaking Warsaw, even refusing a literary prize awarded him by the local Jewish community.