Grininke Beymelekh began publication in February 1914 by the publishing house of Boris Kletzkin [he] in Vilna, Lithuania, and was managed by linguist Nochum Shtif and edited by poet and educator Falk Halperin [ru].

Twenty issues of the paper were produced in 1914 and 1915, until it was forced to cease publication due to the spread of the First World War.

[1][2] The name of the periodical was taken from a 1901 poem about Jewish children ("Unter di grininke beymelekh", 'Under the Green Trees') by Hayim Nahman Bialik.

[1] The following year, Bastomsky founded a magazine aimed at older children titled Der Khaver ('The Friend').

Yiddish children's journals were frequently short-lived, but the Grininke Beymelekh continued publication from 1926 until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.