 He was also the third editor of "Afn Shvel" (1957–2004), a prestigious Yiddish magazine.He died on February 15, 2007 after a long bout of illness following a stroke in the summer of 2001.Schaechter was born in the then Romanian town of Czernowitz (in German and Yiddish; known in Romanian as Cernăuţi, and in Ukrainian as Chernivtsi).