Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and storyteller whose work explores memory, identity, and belonging across cultures. Translated into 58 languages, her novels include The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she is a passionate advocate for freedom of expression and intercultural […]
Devorah Baum
Devorah Baum is an author, filmmaker, journalist, and Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Southampton. Image © Laura Palmer
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