Mark Honigsbaum

Mark Honigsbaum is a writer and journalist specialising in the history and science of infectious disease. A regular contributor to The Observer and The Lancet, his books include a global history of malaria and a social history of the 1918 influenza pandemic, Living With Enza, which was nominated for the Royal Society science book of […]

Ben Barkow

Ben Barkow currently chairs the Academic Advisory Board of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation, charged with creating a national Holocaust memorial adjacent to the Houses of Parliament. He has served as Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library from 2000 until the end of 2019. He is the author, editor and translator of a number of books […]

Jordan Salama

Jordan Salama is a writer who frequently contributes to The New Yorker and National Geographic. His first book, Every Day the River Changes about a journey down Colombia’s Río Magdalena and the people who live along its banks, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021 and a top new travel book by The […]

Eduardo Halfon

Eduardo Halfon is one of the great global writers of his generation. He is the author of fifteen novels examining questions of identity, memory and history as a Jewish man, as a Guatemalan, as a descendant of European and Middle Eastern refugees, including The Polish Boxer, Mourning and Canción. He was named one of the […]

Sarah Weinman

Sarah is the author of the nonfiction books The Real Lolita, Scoundrel, and Without Consent, as well as the editor of several anthologies, most recently Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning. She is the Crime & Mystery columnist for the New York Times Book Review and her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vanity […]

Jacky Klein

Jacky Klein is a publisher and writer. After working as a curator at the Tate, Courtauld and Hayward galleries in London, in 2008 she moved sideways into art book publishing, first as Commissioning Editor at Thames & Hudson, then as Executive Editor at Tate Publishing and subsequently as Director of HENI Books, a small independent […]

Caroline Elton

Caroline Elton was born in north London, the youngest child after her sister Liz and their older brother, Lionel, who was autistic. Originally trained as a teacher, she changed career direction and for the past 25 years has worked as a psychologist who specialises in supporting medical students and doctors. The author of Also Human: […]

Witold Krassowski

Witold Krassowski is a Polish photographer and university teacher. He twice won a prize in the international contest World Press Photo.

Barry Cohen

Barry Cohen is a writer and journalist based in London who has worked as an editor for many publications, including foreign editor of the New Statesman. He has also contributed articles to a broad range of British, US and European magazines and newspapers.

Eylan Ezekiel

Eylan Ezekiel is an education producer and the host of Who Jew Think You Are?, a podcast exploring Jewish diversity through personal stories, history, and heritage. Drawing on his own Indian Jewish background, Eylan connects conversations across continents and generations. Across two seasons, the series has featured guests from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the […]

Benjamin Ellis

Benjamin is a consultant rheumatologist and clinical director at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, with a focus on public health and policy. A former adviser to the Chief Medical Officer and WHO, he has extensive media experience and community leadership roles, and was appointed MBE in 2024.

Tom L. Freudenheim

An art historian and retired museum director, Tom L. Freudenheim studied at Harvard College, Hebrew Union College, and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where his focus was on Islamic and Early Christian Art.  He served as director of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, and Gilbert Collection (London), as well as […]