EINHORN, DAVID

EINHORN, DAVID (1886–1973), Yiddish poet and publicist. Born in Korelichi (Belorussia), his earliest poems were in Hebrew, but under the influence of socialist ideas he turned to Yiddish and made his debut in Bundist publications. His first volumes of verse, Shtile Gezangen ("Quiet Chants," 1909) and Mayne Lider ("My Poems," 1912), acclaimed by leading critics, expressed the tension between the declining traditional order and the heralded new society. In 1910 Einhorn helped organize the Boris Kletskin press, and was also the secretary of S.Y. abramovitsh . In 1912, after six months in prison for suspected revolutionary activities, Einhorn left Russia, moving to Paris and then in 1913 to Berne, Switzerland. There he studied at the university, wrote for Di Yidishe Velt and the children's periodical   Grininke Beymelekh, and edited Di Fraye Shtime (1916–17). In 1917 his book, Tsu a Yidishe Tokhter (a present to his wife), appeared. He lived briefly in Warsaw, where he wrote for the Bundist Lebns-Fragn. In 1920 he moved to Berlin, and later, warning of the coming destruction of Europe, to Paris. He was among the first contributors to the Algemayne Entsiklopedye. In 1940 Einhorn immigrated to the U.S. and became a regular correspondent for the New York Forverts, publishing a weekly column (1956) "Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn" ("Between Two Worlds"), memoirs of the Yiddish literary world. Einhorn was active as a translator and editor, proclaimed a classical, coherent, and grammatically principled style (his poetry was criticized, especially by H. Leivick , for its stylistic simplicity), and preferred traditional Jewish motifs, his work becoming progressively more national in character. He was quite popular among Hebrew authors such as agnon and brenner . -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Rejzen, Leksikon, 1 (1928), 81–86; LNYL, 1 (1956), 73–6. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Sh. Kuperman, in: Khulyot, 8 (2004), 177–88. (Ruth Wisse / Shifra Kuperman (2nd ed.)