Di Yunge

During the early 20th century, their work emphasized romanticism, individualism, subjectivism, and free and indirect expression.

In the period leading up to World War II, Yiddish literature in Poland and Russia changed in response to the political status of Jews.

[2] The writers of the literary movement known as Di Yunge emigrated to the United States from Eastern Europe between 1902 and 1911 as part of a wider migration of Jews from that region.

[4] Di Yunge was the first school of Yiddish literature to stress an aesthetic standard above a social and national purpose; it sought to eschew the communal and didactic perspectives of the socialist labor poetry of the previous generation (represented by poets such as David Edelstadt and Morris Rosenfeld).

[5][6] Di Yunge writers included I. J. Schwartz, Mani Leib, Zishe Landau, Itzik Manger, Aaron Zeitlin, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern and David Ignatoff.