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.

Many titles published by the Bialik institute are now being distibuted in the United States by Gefen Books in Lynbrook, New York and throughout the world by Gefen Publishing House in Jerusalem, Israel.