Viv Groskop
Viv Groskop is a writer, comedian and broadcaster. She is a regular guest presenter on BBC Radio 4 and is host of the hit podcast How to Own the Room, featuring guests like Hillary Clinton and Margaret Atwood. She is the author of seven books. Image © Emma Lewis
Samuel Kassow
Samuel Kassow is the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College. His books include Who Will Write Our History?, which received the Orbis Prize of the AAASS and was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award.
Sabine Casparie
Sabine worked as a lawyer before making a career change into art, completing a Postgraduate Diploma in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2011 and a Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art at Christie’s Education, London in 2012. Since then she has led contemporary art tours and artist studio tours in and […]
Isabel Kershner
Isabel Kershner was born and raised in Manchester, England, and graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Oriental Studies. After working for a political-risk consultancy in London, she migrated to Israel. In 2007, she became a correspondent for The New York Times in Jerusalem, covering both Israeli and Palestinian politics and society. Previously, she was a […]
Denis Hirson
Denis Hirson has lived in France since 1975, yet has remained true to the title of one of his prose poems, The long-distance South African. Most of his nine books, both poetry and prose, are concerned with the memory of the apartheid years in South Africa. Two of his previous titles, The House Next Door to Africa and I […]
Marc B. Shapiro
Marc B. Shapiro holds the Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Brandeis and Harvard universities, he is also the author of Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884–1966 (1999); The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised (2003); and Changing the Immutable: How Orthodox Judaism Rewrites Its History (2015), […]
Jean Strouse
Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan: American Financier and Alice James: A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Architectural Digest and Newsweek. Strouse has been a Fellow of the […]
Ayelet Tsabari
Ayelet Tsabari is the author of Songs for the Brokenhearted, winner of a National Jewish Book Award for fiction and the Association of Jewish Libraries Fiction Award. Image © Elsin Davidi
Mark Malcomson CBE
Mark is Principal and Chief Executive of City Lit. Previously, he was the Director of Executive Education at London Business School and President of the New York Institute of Finance. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List for services to adult education.
Juliet Carey
Juliet Carey is Senior Curator at Waddesdon Manor.
Abigail Green
Abigail Green is an Oxford historian and author of the award winning Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero.
Ruth Franklin
Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. Image © Anthony Delmundo