Zvi Yair is the pen-name of the Hebrew poet and Chassidic scholar, Rabbi Zvi Meir Steinmetz.
Background
His father Shlomo Dov Steinmetz lived in the village of Brister in the Carpathian Mountains, on the border of Galicia, but Zvi Yair was born in Budapest (1915), where the family was living temporarily because of the upheavals caused by the First World War.
Career
Zvi Yair was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew. After the war he lived in Vienna, Austria, till 1952 when he immigrated to New 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.