Einhorn, David

Born in the family of a military doctor. From the age of 13 he wrote poems in Hebrew . Collaborated in Jewish periodicals (“Idisher Arbeter”, “Der Veg”, “Literary Monetryshftn”, “Der Freind”, etc.). He published several collections of poems in Yiddish in Vilna and Warsaw . In 1912 he was arrested for revolutionary activities in the ranks of the Bund , after a six-month imprisonment in the Vilna prison, he forcedly left Russia.
He lived in France , then in Switzerland . He continued to collaborate in the Jewish press. Since 1917 - co-editor (together with P. L. Gershem) of the Geneva Bund weekly Di Frye Stieme. In 1920 he moved to Berlin , worked as a correspondent for the New York Forverts, printed poems, articles, chapters from a novel about Russian-Jewish emigration to Europe. He worked on the translation of the Bible into Yiddish. In the period from 1927 to 1940, he lived in Paris , edited the Bund’s daily newspaper, Unzer Stieme.
Collaborated in the editorial board of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, at the Jewish National University in Paris , in 1935, he lectured here. In 1940 he left for the USA . He worked as a permanent employee of the newspaper "Forverts".

Poetry

• Quiet tunes / Calmness gezangen . Vilna, 1909.
  • 2nd ed., Ext. Warsaw, 1910.
• My poems / Meine leader . Vilna, 1912.
  • 2nd ed. 1913.
• When Spring Calls / Ven der Friing Roof . Warsaw, 1917.
• Jewish daughter / Tsu a yidischer tochter . New York, 1917.
• Silent youth / Calmness yugnt . Warsaw, 1920.
• Requiem. Berlin, 1922.
• Collection of poems 1904-1924 / Gesamlte leader 1904-1924 . Berlin, 1925.
• Violet / Violet . Paris, 1930.
• Father merciful / Av ha-rahamim . New York, 1943.
• The collection of poems 1904-1951 / Gesamlte leader 1904-1951 . New York, 1952.

• Einhorn David - Article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia