Elias Schwarzfeld's death was marked with an obituary piece in the Jewish magazine "Mântuirea", which was incidentally Benjamin Fondane's earliest contribution to this periodical. Fondane praised his uncle as "the only historian of the Romanian Jews", a "living archive", and the wager of a "holy battle" for the defense of Jewish rights. Schwarzfeld's contribution also earned posthumous praise in later decades. Writing in 1999, literary historian Z. Ornea described his predecessor's contribution to the field of Jewish Romanian history as "remarkable". In 2002, Editura Hasefer republished some of Schwarzfeld's scholarly contributions in an anthology edited by historian Lya Benjamin: "Evreii în texte istoriografice". It notably includes his posthumously published reply to Romanian ethnic nationalist historian Nicolae Iorga's "Istoria evreilor în ţările noastre" ("The History of the Jews in Our Countries", 1913).