He-Atid , Devir , and Ha-Tekufah

He-Atid [The Future], Devir [The Word], and Ha-Tekufah [The Generation] are scholarly journals, which best illuminate the encounter between East and West.

In 1907, the Hebrew yearbook He-Atid was founded in Berlin, nearly 100 years after the last Hebrew yearbook had ceased under the title Ha-m'eassef. He-Atid was published until 1914 and was described as a "collection of literary scientific contributions towards the clarification of the position of Jewry and the Jews." It reflected the intellectual life of contemporary Hebrew authors, including its editor, Saul Israel (Shay Ish) Hurwitz, who hailed from Mogilev, Russia. Hurwitz's first contribution in He-Atid's inaugural issue was a comprehensive essay on Rabbi Yehuda Halevy. The philosophies of the medieval poet revolved around the same matters that dominated Hurwitz incessantly, namely the fate of the Jewish people and the meaning of their existence.

Hayim Nahman Bialik, regarded as the national poet of Israel, was also founder of the publishing house, Devir. One of the first activities of this new firm was to create a journal of the same name, which served as an important forum for the Hebrew-language scholarly study of Judaism.

A few years after the departure of many of Berlin's great Hebrew writers, such as SY Agnon and Hayim Nahman Bialik, the German capitol saw a short revival of Hebrew culture. In 1926, Polish-Jewish publisher Abraham Stybel moved his Hebrew publishing firm and its journal, Ha-Tekufah, to Berlin. One of its editors, Simon Rawidowicz, became the central figure of the Hebraicist circle in Berlin in the last years of Weimar.