Jason Greenblatt
Jason Greenblatt is a diplomat, lawyer & commentator who served as an Assistant to the President and the White House Special Envoy to the Middle East in the Trump Administration. he was as one of the architects of the Peace to Prosperity plan between Israel and the Palestinians and was involved in laying the foundation […]
Francesca Specter
Francesca Specter is the writer of The Shoulds – an online, reader-funded publication exploring the hidden rules & stories that shape our lives. She’s also the author of Alonement, a Times book of the year 2021, and host of an award-nominated podcast of the same name. Image © SEBC Photography
Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik has been writing for the New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism, and the George Polk Award for magazine reporting. From 1995 to 2000 he lived in Paris; he now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.
Emily Tamkin
Emily Tamkin is a former Senior Editor, US, at The New Statesman, based in Washington, DC; and the author of The Influence of Soros. Previously a foreign affairs staff writer at Foreign Policy and BuzzFeed News, her work has also appeared in The Economist, The New Republic, Politico, Slate and The Washington Post.
Saskia Coenen Snyder
Saskia Coenen Snyder is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of Building a Public Judaism: Synagogues and Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe, which was a finalist for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
Noga Arikha
Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours (2007), she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy. Image © […]
Mike Levy
Mike Levy has long experience in Holocaust education and holds a fellowship in this subject with the Imperial War Museum. He runs history projects with schools and is currently researching for a PhD in British responses to the Kindertransport. He met Sir Nicholas Winton several times.
Geoffrey Charin
Geoffrey Charin’s 1st degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem whose role in saving people from the Nazis features prominently in his debut novel Without Let or Hindrance. The Kindertransport also features where Charin has incorporated the experiences he heard first hand from the German girl who became an older sister to his Father when staying with […]
Susan Martha Kahn
Susan Martha Kahn is the associate director at The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School. She has published in science studies, animal studies, and Jewish studies
Maurice Selwyn
Maurice Selwyn is a pop music aficionado, raconteur and musician with a wealth of knowledge on the 1950’s and 60’s popular culture. He has interviewed many people from this genre and brings an element of fun and humour to any discussion.
Leslie Cavendish
Leslie Cavendish became Paul McCartney’s private hairdresser in 1966, and soon began to work on the image of all four Beatles, at the Apple offices and in their recording studio. He now works for a major charity but also conducts occasional “VIP Beatles Tours” of London, lectures on the Beatles and Sixties culture, and consults […]
Viviane Bowell
Author Viviane Bowell was born and brought up in Cairo, Egypt. She was expelled with her family in 1956 as a result of the Suez crisis and came to England as a refugee.