Barry Forshaw

Barry Forshaw is a writer, broadcaster and journalist.

Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer was the author of eleven novels and two non fiction books, one of which was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

Natasha Walter

Natasha Walter has worked as a journalist, columnist and reviewer for leading magazines and newspapers, a Booker Prize judge, and is the founder of the charity Women for Refugee Women. Her books include The New Feminism and Living Dolls.  

Maya Benton

Maya Ben­ton is a cura­tor at the Inter­na­tion­al Cen­ter of Pho­tog­ra­phy in New York, where she estab­lished and over­sees a major pub­lic archive. She has curated numerous traveling exhibitions, lectures widely, and is a frequent contributor to magazines and museum catalogues.

Clare Grafik

Clare Grafik is Head of Exhibitions at the Photographers’ Gallery in London

Sarit Yishai Levi

Sarit Yishai-Levi is a renowned Israeli journalist, notable for being the first Israeli to interview Yasser Arafat. She is the author of four non-fiction books and her debut novel, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, was a bestseller and won the Publishers Association’s Gold and Platinum Prizes and the Steimatzky Prize for bestselling book of the year in […]

Martin Bright

Martin Bright worked in journalism on national newspapers and magazines before setting up the youth employment charity, The Creative Society. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Essex and  Editor-at-Large for the free-expression magazine Index on Censorship. 

Theodor Dunkelgrün

Theodor Dunkelgrün is an historian of early modern and modern European cultural and intellectual history, whose work focuses on the philology and material text of the Hebrew Bible.

Philip Alexander

Philip Alexander is Professor Emeritus of Postbiblical Jewish Literature at Manchester University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and former President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Joanna Weinberg

Joanna Weinberg is Professor Emerita in early modern Jewish history and Rabbinics, University of Oxford and Hebrew lecturer at Exeter College, Oxford.

Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank is an award-winning architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Artists and is on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust.

Haim Shapira

Haim Shapira is an Israeli mathematician, pianist, speaker, philosopher and game theorist.