Jake Schneider is a Yiddish activist, poet, translator, collagist, and independent researcher. He is the founding gabbai of Berlin’s Yiddish-speaking social club Shmues un Vayn, the initiator of the Yiddish Hoyz, a language immersion program at Yiddish Summer Weimar, the founding MC of Shtetl Berlin's open mic cabaret "Nu? Yiddish in All Art Forms," and a member of Yiddish.Berlin. He also gives talks about Yiddish culture and walking tours of Berlin’s Jewish immigrant history, partly inspired by the flâneur-poet A.N. Stencl, whose memoirs he is translating as a Fellow of the Yiddish Book Center. His own Yiddish poems have appeared in the Forverts, Afn Shvel, Yiddish branzhe, Yiddishland, and Di goldene pave and have been translated into five languages.