 His sister, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, a Yiddish poet and songwriter, published books together with Charne Schaechter, her sister-in-law.Schaechter′s daughter, Gitl Schaechter-Viswanath is also a Yiddish poet; his son Binyumen (Ben) Schaechter is a composer and musical director in Yiddish and English; daughter Rukhl Schaechter is a journalist with the Yiddish Forward; daughter Eydl Reznik teaches Yiddish among the ultra-Orthodox community in Tsfat, Israel.His nephew, Itzik Gottesman, is an editor of "The Forward" and the "Zukunft (Tsukunft)," and a scholar of Yiddish folklore.