Zvi Yair
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Zvi Yair(Hebrew:צבי יאיר) is thepen-nameof theHebrewpoetand Chassidic scholar, RabbiZvi Meir Steinmetz(Hebrew:צבי מאיר שטיינמץ;1915–2005). Zvi Yair was aJewishpoetwho wrote inHebrew.
Biography
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His father Shlomo Dov Steinmetz lived in the village ofBrister[citation needed]in theCarpathian Mountains,on the border ofGalicia,but Zvi Yair was born inBudapest(1915), where the family was living temporarily because of the upheavals caused by theFirst World War.
In 1940 he married Devorah Isenberg and was hiding in Budapest duringWorld War IIthanks to a family friend, Eleonóra Sipos, which he later awarded a tree in theYad Vashemmuseum.
After the war he lived inVienna, Austria,till 1952 when he immigrated to New York. He began as a teacher in a Yeshiva University affiliated high school and then entered the real estate business as a mortgage broker and small investor.
Works
[edit]He published his first book, "Gesharim" [Bridges], (Herskovitz Miklós,Debrecen,Hungary) under the nameBen Shlomo[the son of Shlomo] in 1942 during World War II, and in 1951 he published inVienna"Netiv" [Path]. He moved to New York and published a booklet inIsraelin 1968 "Al Hachof" [On the Beach]. In 1973 he published "Merosh Zurim" (Eked, Tel Aviv), in 1981 "Miknaf Haaretz" (Eked, Tel Aviv) and in 1997 "Bechevion Hanefesh" (Heichal Menachem, Jerusalem).
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