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Zvi Yair (Hebrew:צבי יאיר)[1] is thepen-name of theJewish poet and Chassidic scholar RabbiZvi Meir Steinmetz (Hebrew:צבי מאיר שטיינמץ; 20 March 1915 – 16 September 2005). Zvi Yair wrote poetry inHebrew.
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 II thanks to a family friend, Eleonóra Sipos, which he later awarded a tree in theYad Vashem museum.
After the war he lived inVienna, Austria, till 1952 when he migrated to New York. He began as a teacher in aYeshiva University affiliated high school and then entered the real estate business as a mortgage broker and small investor.
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. In 1951, he published inVienna "Netiv" [Path]. He moved to New York and published a booklet inIsrael in 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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