Yankev Zoyermilkh (November 20, 1866 – August 18, 1945), better known by his adopted name Jacob Milch, was a Polish-born Jewish-American socialist, Yiddish writer, and chocolate manufacturer.
He wrote mainly satirical-polemical articles and a weekly column called Gedanken fun a prostak” (Thoughts of a boor) that interpreted Marxism in a popular manner for the masses.
During the Panic of 1893, he left his well-paying job in a furniture factory to become secretary of the United Hebrew Trades and organize a relief action that fed hundreds of unemployed people daily.
He edited the Jewish scientific monthly Zukunft in 1907 and was editor and publisher of the quarterly Die Neue Welt in 1909.
He wrote several works in Yiddish, including a three-volume set of books called Jewish Problems in 1920, Philosophic Chats in 1924, an essay comparing Spinoza and Marx in 1932, and a pamphlet on Birobidzhan in 1936.