A headshot of Jake Schneider, a man in his 30s wearing a sports jacket, a brown patterned shirt, smiling with crossed arms

I translate scholarly and literary texts, plan and participate in cultural events, write Yiddish poems and English essays, and organize events and projects related to Yiddish culture and history.

I have been working as a freelance translator since 2012, mostly from German to English.

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As a passionate Yiddishist, I organize many projects related to Yiddish culture and history.

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I organize and participate in a wide range of literary and cultural events.

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I write poetry in Yiddish and essays in English, often on themes of time and memory.

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I recently gave a webinar, hosted by Sweden’s Isof (Institute for Language and Folklore), on how to organize a successful Yiddish social club based on the model of our group in Berlin, Shmues un Vayn.

You can watch a recording of the webinar here. (The website is in Yiddish, but the webinar was in English and also catered to activists for other minoritized languages.)

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