Aviva Dautch
Dr Aviva Dautch is the Executive Director of Jewish Renaissance, the UK’s quarterly Jewish arts magazine, and the inaugural Vera Fine-Grodzinski Research Fellow in Jewish Women’s Voices at Oxford University. An award-winning poet, academic and regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, she has worked as an educator for many of the major London cultural institutions […]
Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky’s poems have been translated into over twenty languages. His prizes and awards include The Los Angeles Times Book Award, The National Jewish Book Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award, the Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship and an NEA Fellowship.
Julia Fermentto Tzaisler
Julia Fermentto-Tzaisler is a fiction writer. Her debut novel, Safari, was published in 2011 and became a Bestseller. Her second novel By the Orange Orchard won the Minister of Culture Award for Young Writers. Her work has been published in German, Polish and English. She is also the artistic director of the Jerusalem International Writers […]
Anne Sebba
Anne Sebba is a historian and one of Britain’s most distinguished biographers who began her career as a Reuters correspondent based in London and Rome. She has written eleven works of non-fiction, mostly about iconic twentieth-century women, which have been translated into several languages including French, Polish, Czech, Japanese and Chinese. She makes regular television […]
Jack Fairweather
Jack Fairweather is an award-winning and bestselling British writer and former war reporter. His last book The Volunteer won the Costa Book Prize and was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller, translated into twenty-six languages, hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. Jack now divides his time between Vermont and the UK. Image © Barney Jones
Josh Cohen
Josh Cohen is an author, psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths University of London. He is a regular contributor to Guardian, New Statesman and TLS. Image © Charlotte Speechley
Guy Leschziner
Guy Leschziner is an author, broadcaster and professor of neurology and sleep medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London.
Francesca Segal
Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Innocents (2012) and The Awkward Age (2017), and a memoir of NICU motherhood, Mother Ship (2019). Her writing has won the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, a Betty Trask Award, and been longlisted for the Women’s Prize. Image © Sophie Davidson
Susan Neiman
Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She has written extensively on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action. She is the director of the Einstein Forum in Germany. Image © James Startt
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand is a rabbi, author, radio broadcaster and leadership trainer for clergy of all faiths. She currently serves as Director of Leadership and Learning at Pears Foundation in London. She has written several books that strive to make Jewish tradition accessible to people of all faiths, including The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales and Scholastic’s All About […]
Mark Rosenblatt
Mark Rosenblatt is a writer and director for stage and screen.His debut play Giant premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London in 2024 and transferred to The Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End in Spring 2025. Image © Luke Bryant.
Lyndsey Stonebridge
Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her award-winning books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg; and We are Free to Change the World; Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience.