David Einhorn (poet)

After helping to found a publishing house in Vilnius he was arrested for his connections to the Bund in 1912, and was exiled from Russia; he went to Bern, where he contributed to journals and periodicals.

He grew pessimistic towards antisemitism in Germany, to which he felt many young Germans were naturally predisposed, and watched the emergence of the early Nazi Party with great anxiety.

He left Germany in 1925 for Paris; there he lived until 1940, when he fled the country during the Nazi Invasion of France and settled as a refugee in New York City.

Critics praised the lyrical quality of the poems in these works, often focused on the conflict between the traditional order and modernity, and many were later set to music.

There, in addition to study at the University of Bern, he wrote for the Yiddish children's periodical Grininke Beymelekh and the Vilna-based journal Di Yudishe Velt.

That year, he wrote another book, Tsu a Yidisher Tokhter ('To a Jewish Daughter') as a wedding present to Genia Zissmann, who he married in March 1917.

He wrote essays for a 1920 compilation entitled Di Tevye ('The Ark'), which he published alongside poet Alter Kacyzne.

He frequented the Romanisches Café, which became a central meeting place for Jewish migrant intellecutals in Berlin, although began to strongly oppose the "coffee house culture" of many of the migrants, whom he decried as bourgeois intellectuals who "count the murdered victims of the Ukrainian pogroms like their own possessions, each night they establish new relief committees, film our sorrows, and expose our shame at the movies".

He continued to contribute to the Forward, writing a weekly column in 1956 entitled "Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn" ('Between Two Worlds') which served as a memoir for Yiddish literary culture.