David Young
Lord Young of Graffham was a British Conservative politician, cabinet minister, businessman, and life peer. He served as Secretary of State for Employment and for Trade and Industry, and later reported to government on health and safety, small business and government procurement.
Don Black
Don Black is the songwriter’s songwriter, a composer’s dream collaborator, and the man behind some of the late twentieth century’s greatest musical numbers. Called ‘the Pelé of lyricists’ by Robbie Williams, Don’s stellar career has seen him win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Tony and an Ivor Novello Award, as well as platinum, gold and […]
Natasha Lehrer
Natasha Lehrer’s long form journalism and book reviews have appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation and Fantastic Man, among others. She has contributed to several books, including a chapter on France in Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism, edited by Jo Glanville (Short Books/Norton, 2022). She has […]
Gideon Reuveni
Gideon Reuveni is Professor of Modern European History and director of the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. His central research interest is the cultural and social history of modern European and Jewish history. He is the author of the prize-winning book Consumer Culture and the Making of Jewish Identity. Image © Vincent Leifer
Daniel Trilling
Daniel Trilling is a London-based journalist and the author of Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe (Picador, 2018) and Bloody Nasty People: the Rise of Britain’s Far Right (Verso, 2012). Image © Dave Stelfox
Jo Glanville
Jo Glanville is a journalist and award-winning editor. Her writing on culture and social affairs has been published in the Guardian, London Review of Books, New York Times, the Observer, Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times among other publications.
Daniel Sokatch
Daniel Sokatch is the chief executive officer of the New Israel Fund. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. Image © Tammi Reinhardt
Miron Izakson
Miron C. Izakson is a poet, author, and professor of literature at Bar-Ilan University.
Daniel Walkowitz
Daniel Walkowitz is emeritus professor of history and of social and cultural analysis at New York University. An influential labor and urban historian, his many books include City Folk: English Country Dance and Politics of the Folk in America.
Menachem Kaiser
Menachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, New York, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Steve Silver
Steve Silver is a journalist who was a researcher on Jo Bloom’s novel Ridley Road and also a consultant on the BBC TV series. He is a former editor of the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight, a publication that was initially founded by 62 Group members.
Jo Bloom
Jo Bloom has worked as a freelancer in the communications field with a focus on arts publicity and e-learning. She was inspired to write Ridley Road after meeting a Jewish anti-fascist who’d lived in the East End and had participated in numerous street battles with the fascists alongside both the 43 Group and the 62 Group. Image © Matthew […]