Oren Cohen Roman is a cultural historian of Ashkenazi Jews and scholar of Yiddish literature from its medieval beginnings until the present day. His book Joshua and Judges in Yiddish Verse: Four Early Modern Epics was published in 2022 by De Gruyter. He is currently preparing a scientific edition of the Old Yiddish epic Shmuel-bukh, a project supported by the Israel Science Foundation. His recent publications have included a study on Yiddish written in Latin letters (Journal of Jewish Languages) and a case of martyrdom involving Jewish criminals in 17th-century Bohemia (Jewish History, with Daniel Soukup).
Cohen Roman is associate professor of Yiddish at Lund University, Sweden.
