[1] He spent over three years in Siberia, Kazakhstan and the Lower Volga, traveling between villages and working at farms.
Schindler's poetry books Fun step un yishuv and Lider, published in 1922 and 1929, respectively, include a number of poems about his time in Astrakhan and nearby rural areas such as Geyrem ("Gerim"), Baym Yaroslan ("By the River Yeruslan") and Kirgiznhoyf ("Kyrgyz Farm").
[2] Schindler's poetry reflects Astrakhan's high degree of ethnic diversity and its "Oriental" atmosphere.
In his poem Akhsanye in step ("Inn in the Steppe"), Schindler described the great variety of peoples he had met during his time in the region: Kazakhs, Kalmyks, Tatars, Ukrainians, Russians, Estonians, Latvians, Circassians, Romanis, Germans, Mokshas and others.
[3][4] After the end of World War I, Schindler returned to Munich where he worked as a Hebrew teacher and met his future wife, Sali, with whom he later emigrated to the United States and bought a chicken farm in Lakewood Township, New Jersey.