David Abulafia

David Abulafia is Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean History at the University of Cambridge. His books include Frederick II, The Western Mediterranean Kingdoms and The Great Sea, which has been translated into a dozen languages. He won the 2020 Wolfson History Prize for The Boundless Sea. Image © Yao Liang
Caron Sethill

Caron Sethill is Programme Manager Europe at the National Library of Israel (NLI) working to strengthen the Library’s connections with Jewish Heritage institutions in Europe, and to share its collections with people working in Jewish settings in Europe. She has developed professional training for heritage professionals, drawing on the NLI’s expertise to raise awareness and to […]
Carolin Duttlinger

Carolin Duttlinger is Professor of German Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Wadham College and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre.
BZ Gilinsky

Baruch (BZ) Gilinsky is a DPhil student at the University of Oxford, studying urban landscapes in Gold Rush San Francisco. He is proud to be Rina Wolfson’s son.
Ariana Neumann

Ariana Neumann is the New York Times bestselling author of When Time Stopped, which won the Dayton Peace Prize for Non Fiction in 2021, Best Memoir at the Jewish Book Awards in 2020 and was shortlisted for various prizes including The Wingate Prize. Image © Serena Bolton
Zaki Cooper

Zaki is co-founder of a communications firm Integra, having previously worked for the Chief Rabbi and in the Royal Household as well as in the corporate sector.
Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith […]
Yehudah Cohn

Yehudah Cohn has a doctorate in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is the author of Tangled Up in Text: Tefillin & the Ancient World and co-author of a Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity. He was one of the translators of the Oxford Annotated Mishnah and has translated work by Israeli Nobel laureate SY Agnon.
Yascha Mounk

Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy. He is a professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
William J. Mann

William J. Mann is the author of, among many others, The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn and Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, for which he won the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. Image © T D Huber
Trudy Gold

Trudy Gold is the former CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and one of the founder members of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. She has taught Modern Jewish History in schools and universities and for adult groups throughout the World. She is the author of a timeline of Jewish History, […]
Tracy-Ann Oberman

Tracy-Ann Oberman is an English television, theatre and radio actress. She is also a column contributor for The Guardian and was a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle and Red Magazine. As a playwright she has written a number of well received Radio 4 plays, including Bette and Joan, Baby Jane and most recently That Dinner of 67.