 As part of his efforts to foster Jewish education in Frankfurt, he opened a "yeshiva", the "Torah Lehranstalt", in 1893, which he modeled after the "yeshivot" he had attended in Hungary.Little of Breuer's work remains in writing.Collected sermons were published in English under the title "Chochmo u'Mussar" in three volumes between 1972 and 1977 by his grandson Jacob Breuer, and some of his responsa appeared in the Hebrew volume "Divrei Yosef", which mainly contained the work of his son Joseph.