Ost und West

[5] Leo Winz and David Trietsch founded Ost und West in 1901 in Berlin, Germany.

Aligned with Martin Buber's view of Judaism as a national culture, their goal was to establish a pan-Jewish ethnicity and combat Ostjuden stereotypes.

Winz and Trietsch hoped to unite all Jews, regardless of their political affiliations, through a shared ethnic nationality by remaining apolitical.

[7] Additionally, David A. Brenner, author of German-Jewish Popular Culture before the Holocaust: Kafka's kitsch, wrote that the magazine is an "ideal" source for evaluating the reception to Yiddish theatre in Germany especially since "studies of popular Berlin theater, including Yiddish-language theater, are few and far between".

[8] Published authors of the magazine included: Martin Buber, Georg Hermann, Theodor Herzl, Bertha von Suttner, Nathan Birnbaum, Lothar Brieger, Hermann Cohen, Max Eschelbacher, Ludwig Geiger, Achad Haam, Gustav Karpeles, Samuel Lublinski, Max Nordau, Alfred Nossig, Max Osborn, Felix Perles, Martin Philippson, Binjamin Segel, Arthur Silbergleit, Thekla Skorra, Werner Sombart, Eugen Wolbe, August Wünsche and Theodor Zlocisti.