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In 1935, the World Zionist Executive and the Executive of the Jewish
Agency for Israel established a permanent institution to foster and
cultivate Hebrew literature and research. In honor of Haim Nahman
Bialik, the national poet who had died one year earlier, the new body was
called
the Bialik Institute.
As a public national institution, the Bialik Institute has dedicated
itself
mainly to literary and scientific projects of enduring value
that strengthen Hebrew culture.
Its projects include the Biblical Encyclopedia; historiographical
collections; the "Dorot" series; research on the Bible, the Apocrypha and
the Dead Sea Scrolls; biblical language; philosophy, including Jewish and
general philosophy, Kabbalah, and studies in Hassidism; history and
sociology; belles lettres, essays, criticism, and linguistics;
translations from Yiddish and world literature; Israel studies and
antiquities; art and artists; studies in Zionism; bibliography.
New
projects worthy of mention are the history of Jewish settlement in
pre-State Israel; the collected writings of Uri Zvi Greenberg and the
collected poetry of Abba Kovner.
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