Sven-Erik Rose is Professor of Comparative Literature and of German and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of California, Davis. He researches modern Jewish European literature and intellectual history, primarily in German and Yiddish. His first book, Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848 (Brandeis University Press, 2014) was awarded the Association of Jewish Studies’ Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Philosophy and Jewish Thought; a Russian translation is currently being prepared with Academic Studies Press. His second book, Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna Ghettos was published by Brandeis University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2025. He is currently at work editing, with Jennifer Geddes, the volume Lessons and Legacies XVII: Languages of the Holocaust; writing a book on ethical discourse authored by victims of the Holocaust while the catastrophic events were still unfolding; and beginning to research the exhilarating, and dauntingly vast, cultural project of translating velt-literatur (world literature) into Yiddish.