Since 2011, Jan Schwarz has been Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies at Lund University, Sweden, the only academic position in Yiddish in Scandinavia. Previously, Schwarz was a Senior Lecturer in Yiddish Studies at University of Chicago, 2003-2011.
Schwarz is the author of two books about Yiddish culture and literature: Imagining Lives: Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers (2005) and Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust (2015), and has published many articles and edited volumes in the fields of Yiddish, American-Jewish and Scandinavian literature, and Holocaust studies.
Schwarz is the Danish translator of Scholem-Aleichem’s Tevye the Dairyman (2009) and Abraham Sutzkever’s Green Aquarium: Stories from the Jerusalem of Lithuania (2017), and editor of The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Literature (Rhodos 1994).
Schwarz is currently working on a project which has been funded by the Swedish Research Council (2014-2016), "The Bilingual Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Novels, Translations, World Literature" and editing a volume of Singer’s early writings.
