John A Davis
John A Davis is professor of modern Italian history emeritus at the University of Connecticut, a research associate in the History Department at the University of Warwick and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. He has published widely on many aspects of Italian history from the 18th century to the present.
David I. Kertzer
David I. Kertzer is Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies at Brown University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Pope and Mussolini, and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for biography; The Pope Who Would Be King, and The Popes Against the Jews, a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize. Image © Kindra Clineff
Dani Shapiro
Dani Shapiro is the author of eleven books, and the host and creator of the hit podcast Family Secrets. Her most recent novel, Signal Fires, was named a best book of 2022 by Time Magazine, Washington Post, Amazon, and others, and is a national bestseller. Image © Beowulf Sheehan
Pnina Lahav
Pnina Lahav is emerita professor of law and a member of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. She is the author of the award-winning Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Samuel Lebens
Samuel Lebens is associate Professor in the philosophy department at the University of Haifa, he is also an Orthodox Rabbi and Jewish educator. His first book was a study of Bertrand Russell’s evolving theories about the nature of meaning. His second book is a study in the analytic philosophy of Judaism.
Bernard Wasserstein
Bernard Wasserstein is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Chicago and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Born in London, he now lives in Amsterdam. Image © Hakan Lindgren
Juliet Stevenson
Juliet Stevenson, CBE is an English actor of stage and screen. She trained at RADA and has been nominated for many Olivier and BAFTA awards.
Hugh Brody
Hugh Brody is a writer, anthropologist and film-maker. After publishing Inishkillane, his classic study of the west of Ireland, he spent many years immersed in communities of indigenous peoples of the Arctic and Subarctic Canada. Image © Marian Penner Bancroft
Ariane Todes
Ariane Todes is a journalist, copywriter, editor and communications consultant specialising in classical music, but with a love of every kind of music and art form.
Daniel Lebhardt
Pianist Daniel Lebhardt has been described by the New York Times as playing with ‘…power, poetry and formidable technique’. Born in Hungary, Daniel studied at the Franz Liszt Academy with István Gulyás and Gyöngyi Keveházi and at the Royal Academy of Music with Pascal Nemirovski. Image © Kaupo Kikkas
William Tyler
William Tyler MBE was the Principal of The City Lit, Britain’s largest college of adult education. He now has a freelance career which includes lecturing, public speaking, writing and consultancy with a main focus on History.
Jacob Mikanowski
Jacob Mikanowski is a writer and academic. His parents were Polish immigrants to the US, and he spent his childhood between Poland and Pennsylvania. He is now a PhD candidate at the UC Berkeley in California. Concurrently, he has become a well-known essayist and freelance journalist.