Daniel Hahn
Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with about a hundred books to his name. He is the author of If This Be Magic: the unlikely art of Shakespeare in translation, and co-editor with Padma Viswanathan of the Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories, both out in 2026. Image © Camila Franca Photography
Sandra Myers
Sandra returned to learning as a mature student back in the 1980s and gained her M.A in Jewish studies at University College London mentored by two great scholars of Jewish History, the late Vivian Lipman and David Ceserani. She then became a Board member of the Spiro Institute followed by the London Jewish Cultural Centre […]
Peter Hacker
Peter Hacker is Emeritus Fellow in Philosophy, St. John’s College, Oxford, UK.
Ghadir Hani
Ghadir Hani is a social changemaker and peace activist. For many years, she lived in the Negev and was involved in promoting peace and the rights of Bedouin women. Ghadir is an active member of various organizations in the field and facilitates dialogues between Israelis and Palestinians.
Dror Rubin
Dror Rubin is a social changemaker and peace activist. For many years, he has worked to promote trust between Jews and Arabs, with an emphasis on working in Israel’s mixed cities. He mediates and facilitates dialogue groups for various organizations and associations.
Michael Arditti
Michael Arditti is an acclaimed novelist, short story writer and critic. His novels are The Celibate (1993), Pagan and her Parents (1996), Easter (2000), Unity (2005), A Sea Change (2006) The Enemy of the Good (2009), Jubilate (2011), The Breath of Night (2013), Widows and Orphans (2015), Of Men and Angels (2018), The Anointed (2020), […]
John Hilary
John Hilary is an honorary professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, and previously author of From Refugees to Royalty: The Remarkable Story of the Messel Family of Nymans (Peter Owen, 2021).
Thomas L Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and, columnist—the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of seven bestselling books, among them From Beirut to Jerusalem and The World Is Flat.
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 […]