Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer

Seth L. Wolitz holds the L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also Professor of French, Slavic, and Comparative Literature. He helped to develop the field of Jewish studies, particularly the study of the secular Yiddish literary cultural world of Eastern Europe and North America. He has also pioneered studies in Eastern European Jewish art history and cultural studies. Trained as a Romance scholar and comparatist at the University of Chicago and Yale University, he has published on Provencal and Brazilian poetry, German theater, and French twentieth-century literature. He is also one of the founders of francophonic African literary studies in the United States and has taught opera and written libretti for operasWolitz, Seth L. is the author of 'Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer', published 0006 under ISBN 9780292791473 and ISBN 029279147X.