Lot of issues of the monthly Ost und West - a book containing 12 bound issues from 1913

Lot of issues of the monthly Ost und West - a book containing 12 bound issues from 1913
Lot of Ost und West monthlies, edited by Winz Leo, including bounded book of 12 magazines from 1913. In good condition: yellowed pages, some pages are slightly torn. *Ost und West was a Zionist periodical for Jewish culture and wisdom. It was published in Berlin during 1901-1923. The periodical's manifesto was articulated by Martin Buber, who advocated an outlook on Judaism as a culture, not only a religion, claiming that this culture has its roots in the East, both the Semitic, Asian-Muslim East, in the spirit of Orientalism which viewed the East and namely the Land of Israel in a Romantic light, and Eastern Europe, where a Jewish culture was thriving. The founder and editor of the periodical was Davis Tritsch and his secondary editor was Arthur Zilberglite. The periodical was published on a monthly basis until August 1914. During World War I it was still published, though less regularly - between twice a year (1915) and eight times a year (1918). It then became a bi-monthly (1921-1919) and eventually a quarterly (1922-1923). The periodical had financial troubles, between 1907 and 1914 a few of its pages were rented by the Alliance Israelite Universelle. In 1923, upon the Weimar Republic economic collapse, the periodical was shut down. The periodical combined works of art, mostly Art-Nouveau etchings (mainly by Ephraim Moses Lilien), and artistic and critical writing. Among the writers were Buber, Ludwig Geiger, Arno Nadel (editor of the music supplement) and Theodore Zlocisti. The periodical was published in German, and translations from Yidddish first appeared in it. In addition, the monthly published poems by the non-Jew Börries von Münchhausen, who later became a Nazi.