Nathan Newman
Nathan Newman is a 26-year-old writer and filmmaker. Their short stories have won awards including the James Knudsen Prize for Fiction and they have been published in literary journals in the US and several university anthologies in the UK. Image © Adrian McDonald
Claudia Roden
Claudia Roden is a food writer with a special interest in the history and cultural background of food. Born in Egypt, she specialises in the cuisines of the Middle East and North Africa, the Mediterranean and in Jewish food. Her books are said to have influenced what we eat in Britain today and to have […]
Gemma Reeves
Gemma Reeves is a writer and teacher who lives and works in London. Victoria Park, Gemma’s debut novel, was published by Allen & Unwin (Atlantic Books) in January 2021. Image © William-Clinton-Ogbebor.
Sam Leith
Sam Leith is Literary Editor of the Spectator. He has written extensively for the Guardian, TLS, Financial Times, Telegraph and Daily Mail, and was a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Image © Mark Rusher
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore FRSL is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Jerusalem: The Biography was number one non-fiction Sunday Times bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council. Image © Marcus Leoni, Folhapress
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz
Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz received her doctorate from University College London. She recently held a research fellowship at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, and has been a lecturer at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, SOAS, King’s College London, and at Vassar College, New York. She is a research fellow and teaches at the London […]
Andrew Porwancher
Andrew Porwancher is professor of history at Arizona State University. His books include American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (forthcoming from Princeton), The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton) and The Devil Himself: A Tale of Honor, Insanity, and the Birth of Modern America.
David Mikics
David Mikics is Professor of English at New College of Florida. He is the author, most recently, of Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker and Bellow’s People: How Saul Bellow Made Life into Art , and editor of The Annotated Emerson. His writing has appeared in Tablet, The Nation, and The New York Times.
Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch is the author of several books of poetry and criticism. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Kirsch is an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section and has written for publications including The New Yorker and Tablet. He lives in New York. Image © Remy Kirsch
Motti Golani
Motti Golani is Ruhama Rosenberg Professor for Jewish History and head of the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University. He has authored and co-authored over a dozen books, including Two Sides of the Coin: Independence and Nakba 1948; Two Narratives of the 1948 War and its Outcome and Palestine Between […]
Jehuda Reinharz
Jehuda Reinharz is Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at Brandeis University and the author and co-author of more than thirty books in Jewish studies, including The Road to September1939: Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II and Zionism and the Creation of a New Society
Jay Prosser
Jay Prosser is a Reader in Humanities at the University of Leeds, where he specialises in Jewish studies and creative nonfiction. He has published academic books, including the first study of transsexual life writing, Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality (1998; Columbia UP), a book that continues to sell very well 25 years after […]