Zvi Yair
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Zvi Yair is the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz (1915-2005). In the Hebrew language it's written צבי יאיר. Zvi Yair was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew.
[edit] Biography
His father Shlomo Dov lived in the village of Brister in the Carpathian Mountains, on the border of Galicia, but Zvi Yair was born in Budapest (1915), where the family was living temporarily because of the upheavals caused by the First World War. In 1940 he married Devorah Isenberg and was hiding in Budapest during World War II thanks to a family friend, Nora Siposh, which he later awarded a tree in the Yad Vashem museum. After the war he lived in Vienna, Austria, till 1952 when he immigrated to New York.
[edit] Works
He published his first book "Gesharim" [Bridges] (Herskovitz Miklós, Debrecen, Hungary) with the name Ben Shlomo [the son of Shlomo] in 1942 during WWII, in 1951 he published in Vienna "Netiv" [Path]. He came to the New York and published a booklet in Israel in 1968 "Al Hachof" [On the Beach]. In 1973 he pubblished "Merosh Zurim" (Eked, Tel Aviv), in 1981 "Miknaf Haaretz" (Eked, Tel Aviv) and in 1997 "Bechevion Hanefesh" (Heichal Menachem, Jerusalem).
