Selected Publications

Monographs

Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers (Wisconsin UP 2005)
ISBN 0-299-20960-1
Edited volumes

Editor. “Multilingual Jewish Literature in America,” Special Section of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History vol.30 (1) (2010). ”Introduction”, 1-5.
ISSN 0272-9601

Coeditor with Gaby Finder, University of Virginia, Antony Polonsky, Brandeis and Natalia Aleksiun, Touro College POLIN 20: Studies in Polish Jewry: “Memorializing the Holocaust”. (2007)
ISBN 978-19-041-1305-8

Journal articles and essays for anthologies

*“Speaking Tevye der milkhiger in Danish: Performance, Humor and World Literature”. Scholem Aleichem in Translation and the European Context, ed. Gennady Estraykh (Agenda, 2012)

* “Post-War Yiddish Holocaust Literature”, Jewish Holocaust Literature, ed. Alan Rosen, Cambridge UP (forthcoming 2012)

“Glatshteyn, Singer, Howe and Ozick: Performing Yiddish Poetry at the 92 Street Y, 1963-1969,” Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History vol.30 (1) (2010):61-96
ISSN 0272-9601

”Blood Ties: Leib Rochman’s Yiddish War Diary” in The Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry, ed. Rosemary Horowitz (McFarland Press 2010):163-182
ISBN 978-0-7864-4199-0

Books (3)

• Schwarz, J. (submitted). Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust. Wayne State University Press.
• (2009). Mælkemanden Tevje.
• Schwarz, J. (2005). Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers. University of Wisconsin Press.

Editorships (3)

• Schwarz, J. & Aptroot, M. (2014). (Eds.) Yiddish Culture in the 20th Century. Studia Rosenthaliana, Amsterdam.
• Schwarz, J. (2010). (Ed.) Multilingual Jewish Literature in America. Prooftexts, 30:1. Indiana University Press.
• Schwarz, J., Finder, G., Aleksiun, N. & Polonsky, A. (2007). (Eds.) Making Holocaust Memory. POLIN : Studies in Polish Jewry, 20.

Articles (7)

• Cavalli, F., Alastuey, A., Areskoug, H., Ceburnis, D., Čech, J., Genberg, J., Harrison, R. M., Jaffrezo, J. L., Kiss, G., Laj, P., Mihalopoulos, N., Perez, N., Quincey, P., Schwarz, J., Sellegri, K., Spindler, G., Swietlicki, E., Theodosi, C., Yttri, K. E., Aas, W. & Putaud, J. P. (2016). A European aerosol phenomenology -4 : Harmonized concentrations of carbonaceous aerosol at 10 regional background sites across Europe. Atmospheric Environment, 144, 133-145. Elsevier.
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• Schwarz, J. (2010). Glatshteyn, Singer, Howe and Ozick: Performing Yiddish Peotry at the 92 Street Y, 1963-1969. Prooftexts, 30, 61-96. Indiana University Press.
• Schwarz, J. (2009). Encounters with German Language and Literature in Yankev Glatshteyn's Work. Studia Rosenthaliana, 197-212. Van Gorcum.
• Schwarz, J. (2008). 1953/1954 - A Year in Yiddish Literature. Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 23, 185-201. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Schwarz, J. (2007). A Library of Hope and Destruction: The Yiddish Book Series Dos poylishe yidntum, 1946-1966. POLIN : Studies in Polish Jewry, 173-196.
• Schwarz, J. (2007). Confrontation and Elegy in the Novels of Chaim Grade. Studia Rosenthaliana, 30-55. Van Gorcum.
• Schwarz, J. (2005). After the Destruction of Jewish Vilna: Abraham Sutzkever's Poetry, Testimony, and Cultural Rescue Work, 1944-1946. East European Jewish Affairs, 35, 209-225. Routledge.

Book chapters (8)

• Schwarz, J. (2013). "Such a Rag-Bag": The Historical Novel as Spectacle, neo-Hasidic Hagiography, and Pseudo-Territory. In Koller, S., Krutikov, M. & Estraykh, G. (Eds.) Joseph Opatoshu: A Yiddish Writer Between Europe and America (pp. 97-112). Legenda, Oxford.
• Schwarz, J. (2013). Post-War Yiddish Holocaust Literature. In Rosen, A. (Ed.) Literature of the Holocaust (pp. 102-118). Cambridge University Press.
• Schwarz, J. (2012). "Nothing but a Bundle of Paper": Isaac Bashevis Singer's Literary Career in America. In Aptroot, M., Gruschka, R., Neuberg, S. & Gal-Ed, E. (Eds.) Leket : yidishe shṭudyes haynṭ (pp. 173-189). Düsseldorf University Press.
• Schwarz, J. (2012). Speaking Tevye der milkhiker in Translation: Performance, Humour, and World Literature. In Estraykh, G., Finkin, J., Hoge, K. & Krutikov, M. (Eds.) Translating Sholem Aleichem (pp. 199-215). Legenda, Oxford.
• Schwarz, J. (2011). Blood Ties: Leib Rochman's Yiddish War Diary. In Horowitz, R. (Ed.) Memorial Books of Eastern European Jewry : Essays on the History and Meanings of Yizker Volumes (pp. 163-179). McFarland.
• Schwarz, J. (2007). Jacob Glatstein (Yankev Glatshteyn) (1896-1971). In Sherman, J. (Ed.) Writers in Yiddish (pp. 45-55). Thomson Gale.
• Schwarz, J. (2007). The Original Yiddish Text and the Context of Night. In Rosen, A. (Ed.) Approaches to teaching Wiesel's Night (pp. 52-58). Modern Language Association of America.
• Schwarz, J. (2004). Avrom Tabatshnik's interview with Yankev Glatshteyn, New York, 1955. In Sherman, J. (Ed.) Yiddish after the Holocaust (pp. 74-91). Boulevard.

Encyclopaedia entries (1)

• Schwarz, J. (2010). Memoir and Life Writing: Yiddish. In Baskin, J. R. (Ed.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Cambridge University Press.