Janet Hadda is the author of Yankev Glatshreyn and Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature. She is professor of Yiddish at the University of California, Los Angeles and training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.

"Hadda [gives] us unique, exciting insights into Singer's creative process." - Leonard Nimoy; "The iridescent charm of Isaac Bashevis Singer is such as to give the slip to the very letters of the alphabet, but Janet Hadda has out-tricked the Yiddish trickster in this brief but wonderfully alive-and-kicking biography. The story she tells will entertain, appall, and fascinate." - Jack Miles, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography