Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. Image © Ine Gundersveen
Melvyn Bragg
Melvyn Bragg is an award winning writer and broadcaster. He is the editor of The South Bank Show and presenter of the BBC’s acclaimed discussion programme, In Our Time. Image © ITV
Lewis R. Gordon
Lewis R. Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, activist and also a musician, who was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in the Bronx, New York. As Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs in the United States, Gordon is a pioneer in the school of Black existentialist thought and […]
Femmetje de Wind
Femmetje de Wind is a writer, journalist, columnist and editor. In 2015 she made her debut with the novel Rivka which was partly based on her father’s wartime past. She then wrote the novel Het beloofde leven and edited the collection Door hun ogen, containing stories of Holocaust survivors.
Sarah Death
Sarah Death is a prizewinning literary translator and has worked on texts of many eras and genres. She was the editor of Swedish Book Review for twelve years and is a director of Norvik Press. She has acted as a mentor for a number of emerging literary translators.
Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus
Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus is an Israeli-born author, poet and translator. Although Hebrew is his native language, he has lived in Berlin for over a decade and writes mainly in German.
Helen Lewis
Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, based in London, who writes about politics and culture. Her first book, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights, was a Sunday Times bestseller and a Guardian, Telegraph and Financial Times book of the year. She is the writer and presenter of the BBC […]
Zahavit Shalev
Rabbi Zahavit Shalev works at New North London Synagogue. She does all the usual rabbinic things and is particularly involved in running the conversion programme and family education. She reads feminist Biblical and rabbinic criticism and lots of books about brain science and behavioural economics. She believes singing is important.
Jonathan Magonet
Rabbi Prof. Jonathan Magonet is Emeritus Professor of Bible at Leo Baeck College. He has co-edited the prayer books of the UK Movement for Reform Judaism and is editor of the journal European Judaism. In addition to his books on Biblical commentary he has published a novel Netsuke Nation: Tales from another Japan and his collected poems: Ghost Walk.
Gabriel Josipovici
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.
David Triesman
David Triesman is a Labour peer and Group Director at the Merchant Bank, Salamanca Group. He was a Board Member of Wembley National Stadium and was Chairman of the Football Association.
Simon Kuper
Simon Kuper is the co-author of bestselling Soccernomics. His first book, Football Against the Enemy, won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and is acknowledged as one of football’s seminal books. Simon writes a weekly sports column in the FT and has previously written football columns for The Times and The Observer. Image © Leila Kuper