12/20 | Birthday of Mani Leyb
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 20 Birthday of Mani Leyb, Yiddish poet Mani Leyb Brahinsky was born on this day, December 20, 1883 in Nizhyn, a shtetl in Kiev Gubernya (today Ніжин, Ukraine). From his earliest attempts at verse to his strikingly fresh poetry while leader of the American poetry group, di Yunge, the Young Ones. Brahinsky would drop his surname for his writing career, beginning as a translator of Russian and Ukrainian poetry for the Forward. Brahinsky a kamashnshteper—a shoe and boot-maker—was active in the revolutionary movement in Russia before emigrating to...
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