Sana Krasikov

Sana Krasikov grew up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and in the United States. She is an award-winning author and her stories have appeared in publications including The New Yorker.
Boris Fishman

Boris Fishman emigrated to the US from Minsk at the age of nine. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, the Guardian and many other publications.
Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon is an American novelist, screenwriter, columnist, and short story writer.
Mikhl Yashinsky

Mikhl Yashinsky is a translator, playwright-lyricist, singer-actor, and teacher in New York City. He was born in Detroit and graduated with a degree in European history and literature from Harvard. His translation of Ester-Rokhl Kaminska’ s memoirs, The Mother of Yiddish Theatre, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He has taught Yiddish at Columbia, the University of Michigan, […]
David Mazower

David Mazower is the research bibliographer and editorial director at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is the chief curator of the Center’s permanent exhibition, Yiddish: A Global Culture and the author of the newly published book and catalogue, Yiddish: A Global Culture: Bold Lives, Boundless Creativity. Before joining the Center, he was a senior staff journalist with […]
Naftali Brawer

Rabbi Naftali Brawer serves as the executive director of Tufts Hillel and the Jewish chaplain at Tufts University.
Jonathan Romain

Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain MBE is a Rabbi, writer and broadcaster, and was previously Chair of Dignity in Dying. He is regularly heard on the BBC, and his many books include Confessions of a Rabbi (2017).
Gaby Wood

Gaby Wood is the Director of the Booker Prize Foundation, where she oversees matters ranging from the selection of prize judges to reading groups in prisons to an annual creative writing scholarship at the University of East Anglia.
Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Image © Sheila Burnett
Avner Offer

Avner Offer is an economic historian who held the Chichele Professorship in Economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a fellow of the British Academy.
Jan Dalley

Jan Dalley was the FT’s arts editor. She was responsible for the FT’s coverage of all the art forms, from opera to hiphop, sculpture to pop, film, theatre and more in the weekday pages as well as in Life & Arts in FT Weekend. She also wrote features, interviews and occasional columns.
Anthony Lester

Baron Lester of Herne Hill was a barrister and member of the House of Lords.