Jake Schneider (DE/YL-Yiddishland; Yiddish poetry, translation, cultural organizer, researcher)
is a Berlin-based Yiddish poet, translator, cultural organizer, and independent researcher.
He is the founding gabbai of Berlin’s Yiddish-speaking social club Shmues un Vayn and the initiator of Yidish-Hoyz, the Yiddish-language immersion program at Yiddish Summer Weimar.
Together with Adrien Smith, he is co-creator of The New Zamlers, an initiative that combines oral history methods with the Yiddish tradition of recruiting amateur collectors to document Yiddish life for the archive.
Jake is also active as a publisher and editor of Yiddish zines and chapbooks, including the contemporary poetry anthology Lokshn un Lebn, released at YSW. His Yiddish poems have appeared in publications such as the Forverts, Afn Shvel, and Yiddishland, and been translated into seven languages.
He also gives talks and walking tours on Yiddish culture and history in Berlin, partly inspired by the flâneur-poet A. N. Stencl, whose memoirs he is translating into English.
>> Instagram: @jakeausdemschneider
>> Yidish-Hoyz (YSW)
>> The New Zamlers (Yiddish Oral Histories)
>> Manchester Yiddish Residency 2024, Manchester Metropolitan University
(Video: Jake Schneider at 11:21)
Photo: Arndt Beck
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