Jean-Claude Grumberg has been a successful man of theater for over forty years as a playwright of thirty plays, an actor, a film screenwriter for Truffaut (The Last Metro) and Costa-Gavras (Amen), a writer of eight children’s plays and stories, and even a stage director. He has won the Grand Prix for theater from the Académie Francaise, and he has been honored by having his plays performed on the stage of the French National Theater, the Comédie Francaise, and L’Odéon, as well as having his plays studied as part of the curriculum in the French public school system.
Seth Wolitz is L. D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair Emeritus of Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has also served as Professor of Comparative Literature and Theatre and Professor of French and Slavic. His books include The Songs of Bernard de Ventadorn,The Proustian Community, and The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer. He has also written many articles on Jewish/Yiddish theater and especially on Ansky’s The Dybbuk.
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.
