Eliezer Greenberg

Yiddish writer, translator, and editor Eliezer Greenberg (Leyzer Grinberg) was born in Lipkany, Bessarabia, and in 1913 came to the United States, where he was educated at the University of Michigan and later settled in New York. Greenberg published poetry and books of critical essays, and he collaborated on a number of translations with the literary and social critic Irving Howe. Greenberg was director of Yiddish press relations for the American Jewish Committee and was a founder of the Yiddish branch of the PEN Club.