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Ițic Șvarț (יצחק שװאַרץ, 1906–2001), commonly known by the pen name I. Kara (י. קארא) or in English as Itzik Schwartz-Kara, was a Romanian Jewish cultural critic, historian, poet, and playwright, who published in Yiddish, Romanian, and other languages.

Biography
He began his writing career as a correspondent for the Bucharest Yiddish-language newspaper Undzer veg. He soon began sending cultural criticism and literary pieces to a variety of publications: Tshernovitser bleter in Chernivtsi, Shoybn, and Ivo-bleter in Vilnius.

During World War II he joined the Red Army. He later participated in the Soviet march on Berlin. After the war ended he worked as a teacher in a Gymnasium in Bacău, Romania. He relocated to Bucharest and became a playwright for the Yiddish theatre there.