Karen Mattison
Karen Mattison is a serial social entrepreneur, having founded and led three award-winning social enterprises. Following 15 successful years at Women Like Us and Timewise, Karen embraced her love of cooking to co-found Cook for Good, which is tackling food insecurity, social isolation and barriers to work by connecting businesses with a community in Kings […]
Barry Kester
Barry Kester lives in London and has loved musical theatre all his life. After retirement in 2010, he set out to write a detailed history of his favourite musical. Round in Circles: The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel is his first book.
Joshua Levine
Joshua Levine is a writer, historian and broadcaster. He was the historical advisor for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Steve McQueen’s Blitz. He has written for many publication including the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and written and presented programmes for radio and television. In a former life, he was a criminal barrister.
Marina Sapritsky-Nahum
Marina Sapritsky-Nahum is a social anthropologist based in London, UK. She is Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College London. She is also affiliated with the European Center for Jewish Music in Hanover, where she is currently conducting research on Ukrainian Jewish cultural heritage.
Rabbi Elliot J. Cosgrove
Elliot J. Cosgrove, a leading voice of American Jewry, is Senior Rabbi of Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. He is the author of 16 volumes of sermons, the editor of Jewish Theology in Our Time and the author of For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today. He is the host […]
Gemma Seltzer
Gemma Seltzer is a London-based writer and creative facilitator. She is the author of two short story collections, including Ways of Living (Influx Press, 2021), a Foyles bestseller and a featured title in JW3’s Modern Jewish Literature series. Her storytelling spans forms and platforms: she wrote Songbird, an award-winning virtual reality film for the Guardian; […]
César Merchán-Hamann
César Merchán-Hamann is the Victor Blank Hebraica and Judaica curator in the Bodleian Library and director of the Leopold Muller Memorial Library at the University of Oxford.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Oxford.
Nigel Hess
Nigel Hess is the great-nephew of pianist Dame Myra Hess. He composes for television, theatre, film and the concert hall. He has scored many productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe, receiving the New York Drama Desk Award for Much Ado About Nothing and Cyrano de Bergerac on Broadway.
Leslie Hakim-Dowek
Leslie Hakim-Dowek is a visual artist of Lebanese origin based in London. Her practice mainly focuses on issues of identity, migration and memory often combining photography, archival material and creative writing. She is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth and has widely exhibited in the UK and abroad. Her work is in many […]
Philip Rubenstein
Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which campaigned to bring to justice Nazi war criminals living in the UK, and founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust. Today he works with family businesses. He also lectures on history, politics and film.
Ian Morris
Ian Morris teaches at Stanford University and is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society for the Arts, and at LSE. He studies long-term global history, asking what the patterns of the past tell us about the future. His 15 books include the prize-winning Why the West Rules—For Now.