Schneider, Jake
1988-
(Living)
A bilingual (Yiddish-English) poet and essayist, he was born in New Jersey. He studied at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and in 2012 he moved to Germany.
Over the years 2016-2021, he edited an English-language literary periodical and was engaged in translating from Yiddish into English.
He debuted in print with poems in Yiddish in the collection
Nayste yidish dikhtung (Latest Yiddish poetry) (Berlin, 2022),
and he has published as well in
Yidish branzhe (Yiddish branch),
Forverts (Forward), and
Yidishland (Yiddishland).
He lives in Berlin (2025) where he leads an active Yiddish group. A Yiddishist, he is an activist to return the public presence of Yiddish to daily life in Berlin and in Germany overall.