David Stromberg

David Stromberg, a writer, translator, and literary scholar, is editor for the Isaac Bashevis Singer Literary Trust. His books include Baddies, Idiot Love and the Elements of Intimacy, and A Short Inquiry into the End of the World.

Robert Popper

Robert Popper is an award-winning writer, producer and bestselling author. He’s the creator of Channel 4’s six-series hit Friday Night Dinner, he co-created and starred in BBC 2’s cult favourite Look Around You with Peter Serafinowicz, produced the Bafta award-winning Peep Show, co-wrote episodes of Stath Lets Flats with Jamie Demetriou, wrote on season fourteen of South Park, and script-edited The Inbetweeners and The IT Crowd.

Tom Lamont

Tom Lamont is an award-winning journalist. In 2015, he became one of the founding writers on the Guardian‘s Long Read desk and since 2017 he has been a regular correspondent for American GQ. He lives in north London with his wife and two children. Going Home is his first novel.

Ruth-Anne Lenga

Ruth-Anne Lenga is the Programme Director of UCL’s award-winning Centre for Holocaust Education – a specialist institute supporting teachers to deliver high-quality research-based Holocaust education. She is is a member of the UK Foreign Office’s delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance which holds its presidency on 2024. She is one of a team of […]

Yair Zivan

Yair Zivan is a committed centrist. He has served as foreign policy advisor to Yair Lapid, leader of Israel’s largest centrist political party since 2014 throughout his tenures as finance minister, leader of the opposition, foreign minister and prime minister of Israel. Before working for Mr. Lapid he was international media spokesperson for President Shimon […]

Louisa Treger

Louisa Treger is the acclaimed author of three novels, The Lodger (2014), The Dragon Lady (2019) and Madwoman (2022), which was a Book of the Month in the Independent and The Sunday Times. She has written for The Times, The Telegraph, Tatler, BBC History Magazine and English Heritage. Treger has a First Class degree and […]

Alastair Santhouse

Alastair Santhouse is an author and a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at The Maudsley Hospital, London. His work explores the connection between mind and brain, with a focus on treating complex mental disorders. Image © Vincenzo-Photography

Sigrid Rausing

Sigrid Rausing is the publisher of Granta magazine and Granta Books. She is the author of History, Memory and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia (2004), Mayhem (2017), Everything Is Wonderful (2014) and the co-author and translator of And The Walls Became the World All Around Me (2024). Image © Daniel Hotz

Gila Fine

Gila Fine is a lecturer of rabbinic literature at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. She serves on the faculties of the Nachshon Project, Amudim Seminary, the Tikvah Scholars Program, and the London School of Jewish Studies. As editor in chief of Maggid Books, Gila edited and published over a hundred titles of contemporary Jewish […]

Alice Austen

Alice Austen is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, and playwright. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she co-founded the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and she was the first American to receive a fellowship to the European Court of Human Rights. She studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney and has been awarded a Royal Court Residency; and […]

Nechama Goldman Barash

Rabbanit Nechama Goldman Barash teaches contemporary halakhah and Talmud at Matan, Midreshet Torah V’Avodah (MTVA), and the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. She also lectures on sexuality and halakhah through the Eden Center, an Israeli organization dedicated to enabling all women to have a meaningful experience in the mikvah (ritual bath). Uncovered is her first book.

Joshua Leifer

Joshua Leifer is the author of Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. His essays and reporting have also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Haaretz, and elsewhere. He is a doctoral student in history at Yale University.  Image © Haaretz