Thomas Sparr
Thomas Sparr is a Publisher-at-Large for the German publisher Suhrkamp and former chief editor at Siedler. For many years, he worked at the Hebrew University and Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem.
David Pryce-Jones
David Pryce-Jones was born in Vienna in 1936. He served as Literary Editor at the Financial Times and the Spectator, as war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review.
Delphine Horvilleur
Delphine Horvilleur is one of the few female Rabbis in France and is editorial director of the quarterly Jewish magazine – Workshop on Jewish thought. She leads a congregation in Paris, and is co-leads the Liberal Jewish Movement of France affiliated to the World Union for Progressive Judaism, which she joined in 2008. She is also an author.
Mark Damazer
Mark Damazer, CBE is a former Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra. He was the Senior Non-Executive Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum until 2019 and a Trustee of the BBC from 2015 – 2017.
Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee was the President of Wolfson College, Oxford from 2008 to 2017 and is a retired professor of English Literature. Image © John Cairns
Elisabeth Gallas
Elisabeth Gallas is deputy to the director and head of the research unit “Law” at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture ‒ Simon Dubnow in Leipzig, Germany. Her research focuses on modern Jewish legal and cultural history as well as Holocaust and aftermath studies.
Miriam Berger
Rabbi Miriam Berger was senior rabbi of Finchley Reform Synagogue in London until she stepped down in 2024. She has spearheaded The Mikvah Project UK, a charity which aims to create a centre of wellbeing with the ritual of Mikvah at its heart.
Tony Bayfield
Rabbi Tony Bayfield CBE is a graduate of Magdalene College Cambridge and Leo Baeck College, London. He has been both Head and President of the Movement for Reform Judaism. He also has a Lambeth doctorate for a body of published work in the world of theology and Christian Jewish relations. He was awarded the Inter […]
Nadia Ragozhina
Nadia Ragozhina was born in Moscow and moved to the UK in 2000. She is a senior journalist at BBC World News. Nadia writes and blogs about sustainability and zero waste living, which, other than books and her family, is her passion in life. She lives in London with her husband and two daughters. Worlds Apart is her first […]
Angelica Malin
An award-winning entrepreneur, podcast and event host based in London, Angelica Malin is the founder and editor-in-chief of About Time, one of the UK’s leading lifestyle magazines. Image © About Time Magazine, London Photographer
David Lawson
Dr David Lawson, Kingston Ostrava Group, was a management consultant specialising in strategy and commercial and organisational effectiveness, now retired. Inspired by a sefer torah that came from Moravská Ostrava in what is now the Czech Republic, David has been researching the history of Ostrava and its Jewish community in collaboration with the Jewish Museum […]
Jaana Johannson
Jaana Johannson has worked as a reporter for Swedish Radio and Swedish Television and has edited a Finnish cultural magazine which is published in Sweden.