R. Joseph ha-Kohen Schwartz (1877–1944), Hungarian rabbi and author, was born in Felsoviso, Hungary, the son of R. Naphtali ha-Kohen Schwartz and a pupil of R. Jacob Tennenbaum. He edited the periodical Va-Yelakket Yosef for 20 years, from 1899 to 1918, in Bonyhad. In 1924 he moved to Grosswardein (Oradea), where he served as rabbi to the Mahzikei Torah society and published several important books.

The most valuable are: Zafenat Pa'ne'ah (1909), notes on the Yad Yizhak of Abraham Isaac Glueck; Ginzei Yosef (1930); and Va-Yizbor Yosef (1936), responsa. A detailed bibliography of his many publications published by Ben-Menahem in his Mi-Sifrut Yisrael be-Ungaryah (1958, 330–70), includes his testament, written a few months before his death in the Holocaust, together with a biography of him.