Martin Goodman
Martin Goodman is emeritus professor of Jewish studies at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His numerous books include A History of Judaism; Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations; and Josephus’s The Jewish War: A Biography. He lives in Oxford, UK.
Martha Anne Toll
Martha Anne Toll’s debut novel, Three Muses, was shortlisted for the Gotham Book Prize and won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction. A book critic for NPR and The Washington Post among others, Toll had a career in social justice after training as a classical viola player. She serves on PEN/Faulkner Foundation’s board and […]
Mark Glanville
After studying Classics at Oxford University and singing at the RNCM, Mark performed as Bass soloist for Opera North, Scottish Opera, Lisbon Opera, Israeli Opera, Opera Zuid, and in concert with Yehudi Menuhin, Daniele Gatti, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, David Willcocks. His memoir, The Goldberg Variations, was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize for Jewish Literature.
Mark Burman
Mark Burman is an audio story teller with an interest in Jewish history. For the past 30 years he was an award winning documentarian at the BBC. His first radio documentary was an oral history of the Battle of Cable Street marking its 50th anniversary-in 1986. His last major series for Radio 4 was The Warsaw […]
Margaret Hodge
Margaret became the Labour Member of Parliament for Barking in June 1994. She has served in government, holding portfolios across education, work and pensions, business and culture. In 2010, Margaret also became the first elected Chair of the Public Accounts Committee and was also its first female Chair. Today, Margaret is the Chair of the […]
Marc Verter
Marc Verter is a collaborative pianist, vocal coach and repetiteur.
Lynne Hjelmgaard
Poet Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in New York and has lived permanently in London since 2011. After crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat with her late husband she wrote the poems collected in her book Manhattan Sonnets. She met Dannie Abse at the Torbay Poetry Festival, himself widowed, and became his partner in his later years. Her most recent poetry […]
Lisa J. Grushcow
Rabbi Lisa J. Grushcow, D.Phil., is senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal, Canada. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi OBE is a prize-winning writer, novelist, cultural commentator. She was President of English PEN, Chair of the Freud Museum London, and until 2020 Chair of the Royal Society of Literature. Her non-fiction includes Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love. Image © Antonio Olmos.
Lipika Pelham
Lipika Pelham is a historian, journalist, documentary filmmaker and the author of Passing: An Alternative History of Identity (2021), Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic (2019), Conversations Across Place (2021), and The Unlikely Settler (2014). She has recently completed a PhD commentary on Sephardi Jewish converts in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Quest for Zion In The Dutch Republic, […]
Linda Grant
Linda Grant is author of four non-fiction books and eight novels. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000, the Lettre Ulysses Prize for Literary Reportage in 2006 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of York and Liverpool John Moores University. Image © Charlie Hopkinson
Liel Leibovitz
Liel Leibovitz is host of Tablet’s daily Talmud podcast Take One and cohost of the Unorthodox podcast. Author of A Broken Hallelujah and Stan Lee and coauthor of The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia, he lives in New York City. Image © Jack Wang, the Epoch Times