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An extract from Fishl Schneersohn’s novel Chaim Gravitzer: The Tale of the Downfallen One From the World of Chabad.

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.

New research and translation of Avrom Sutzkever’s work leads to a multilingual, multinational convening of Yiddishists in Copenhagen, Denmark and in Lund, Sweden.