Mani Leib was born in 1883 in Russia. He was raised in a poor setting. He worked in a shoe Factory. He came to U.S. in 1905 at the age of 22. His writing stylistically was very lyrical. He didn’t focus on politics; his content was more poetic as opposed to journalistic, which was what the Sweatshop poets writing was. He followed word choice very strictly and tried, like the other Di Yunge, to separate himself from the radicalism and journalism that came with the previous groups of poetry. He was considered the most original of all the Yiddish poets. He died in 1953.

Here is an excerpt from “The Seven Brothers” by Mani Leib

And that rainy day,

We seven brothers each went a different way,

With grief in our blue eyes and our grey eyes.

At the gate of New York we said our good-byes.

And each brother of the seven brothers,

On that rainy day,

Down a different avenue of the seven avenues

Went his separate way.

(Leftwich, 274).