Manager of RRU
Manager of RRU, Yiddish
Senior Lecturer, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Yiddish
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail jan.schwarzsol.luse
Phone +46 46 222 73 93
Room SOL:A309b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
My research includes publications and conference papers that describe and analyze cultural, literary and linguistic phenomena in the fields of Yiddish literature, Jewish-American literature, Holocaust testimonies, and Jewish life-writing. My main scholarly contribution to the field of Yiddish studies is the monograph Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers (2005). This study examines the modern autobiography in Yiddish as it originated in the second half of the nineteenth century and developed in various transcontinental centers in the twentieth century. The book is the first comprehensive scholarly examination of the Yiddish autobiographical genre.
My current scholarly work, the forthcoming book Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after 1945 focuses on post-1945 Jewish literature in Yiddish and English including fiction by I.B.Singer and Chaim Grade, poetry by Yankev Glatshteyn, Avrom Sutzkever, and testimonial literature by Leib Rochman and Elie Wiesel.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
Books (3)
- Schwarz, J. (submitted). Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust. Wayne State University Press.
- Aleichem, S. (2009). Mælkemanden Tevje. Hovedland.
- 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 (5)
- Schwarz, J. (2021). Introduction. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 20, 135-140. Routledge.
- 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 (9)
- Schwarz, J. (2022). Yiddish. In Leaman, O. (Ed.) Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice (pp. 501-507). Routledge.
- 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)
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (2)
- Schwarz, J. (2010). Glatshteyn, Singer, Howe and Ozick: Performing Yiddish Peotry at the 92 Street Y, 1963-1969. Prooftexts - Journal of Jewish Literature History, 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.
Administrative
- Manager of Research and Research Education at Yiddish
Senior Lecturer, Manager of Research and Research Education
- Yiddish
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail jan.schwarzsol.luse
Phone +46 46 222 73 93
Room SOL:A309b
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20