Ryan MacKenzie
Ryan MacKenzie’s prodigious versatility makes him one of the UK’s most sought after composer-arrangers. He has written for such celebrated ensembles as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and for a diverse range of artists, including Pixie Lott, Alan Cumming, Gabrielle Aplin […]
Ruth Wisse
Ruth R. Wisse was Professor of Yiddish literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University 1993-2014, and before that at McGill University in Montreal. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Tikvah Center in New York. She has published several books on literature, culture, and politics. Image © Joyce Ravid
Ross Perlin
Ross Perlin is a linguist, writer, and translator focused on exploring and supporting linguistic diversity. His book Language City was released by Grove in the US and the UK. Since 2013 he has been Co-Director of the Endangered Language Alliance in New York, where he created the Jewish Languages Project. He also teaches linguistics at Columbia. His […]
Roger Lewis
Roger Lewis has achieved considerable word-of-mouth success with Seasonal Suicide Notes. He has also written a biography of Anthony Burgess, and Sunday Times best-selling books on Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and the Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey.
Roger Gartland
Roger studied at The University of Waterloo before leaving his native Canada in search of adventure. He arrived at the BBC in 1982 and joined the Drama department in 1984. In 1991 he was offered a place on The BBC Drama Director’s course and shortly thereafter left to pursue a career as a freelance writer/director. […]
Robert Boyers
Robert Boyers founded SALMAGUNDI, an international quarterly, in 1965 and continues to edit the journal, to teach at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, and to direct The New York State Summer Writers Institute. Image © Elizabeth Benedict
Robert Alter
Robert Alter is professor of the Graduate School and emeritus professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age, Imagined Cities: Urban Experience and The Language of the Novel, and Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible. Image © Peg Skarpinski
Richard Bolchover
Richard Bolchover studied Jewish History and Hebrew Literature at University College London, St. Antony’s College Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he was a Rotary International Foundation Scholar studying at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry. He has worked in the City for 35 years, co-founding two successful business, and is Vice Chair of […]
Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Taylor is the editor of JR. She has been a journalist for 25 years, starting her career on the domestic news desk of The Japan Times newspaper in Tokyo and then returning to the UK where she worked at the Guardian for several years. She was the news editor at Time Out London for ten years where she interviewed everyone from […]
Raquel Ukeles
Dr Raquel Ukeles is Head of Collections at the National Library of Israel.
Raphael Zarum
Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum is Dean of the London School of Jewish Studies (LSJS) and holds the Rabbi Sacks Chair of Modern Jewish Thought, established by the Zandan family.
Rafael Behr
Rafael Behr is a political journalist and broadcaster. He writes a political column for the Guardian. His work has also been published amongst others in the Times, the Sunday Times and Prospect magazine. He is regularly a commentator on the BBC, Sky News and Times Radio. He hosts the Politics on the Couch podcast.