Moshe Idel
Prof. Moshe Idel is the Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought, Emeritus, Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Miri Rubin
Miri Rubin is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. Her research and teaching explore the religious cultures of Europe through social relations, relations between Jews and Christians, and the operation of gender. She is interested in the diversity of urban life, as explored in her recent book Cities of Strangers, […]
Miri Freud-Kandel
Miri Freud-Kandel is Lecturer in Modern Judaism in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford, Fellow in Modern Judaism at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and co-convenor of the Oxford Summer Institute on Modern and Contemporary Judaism.
Miranda Rijks
Miranda Rijks is the bestselling author of 21 psychological thrillers and The Eccentric Entrepreneur, a biography of her grandfather, Sir Julien Cahn, a notable cricket benefactor who in the 1920s and 1930 ran his own first-class cricket team. Miranda has a law degree, a masters in writing and qualifications in coaching and psychometric testing. Before becoming […]
Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines MBE was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. Her father was recommended to leave Czechoslovakia the day before the Nazis invaded because he was both Jewish and a supporter of an anti-Nazi author.
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff is a writer, historian and former politician. He is currently university professor at Central European University in Vienna. His books, have been translated into twelve languages, and include Blood and Belonging, Isaiah Berlin, The Needs of Strangers and The Russian Album, and On Consolation. Image © Paul Musso, Hay Festival
Michael Haas
Michael Haas is senior researcher, cofounder, and chair of the Exilarte Centre in Vienna, where he studies and archives music suppressed by National Socialism. He is the author of Forbidden Music and was formerly music curator at Vienna’s Jewish Museum.
Micah Goodman
Micah Goodman is one of the most original and influential public intellectuals living in Israel today. He was named by Liberal Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Israelis in 2019. Since March 2021, with Efrat Shapira Rosenberg, he is the host of Mifleget Hamachshavot – The Great Ideas Behind Israeli Politics, produced by Beit Avi […]
Mia Levitin
Mia Levitin is a cultural and literary critic, whose work appears regularly in publications including the Financial Times, The Spectator and the Irish Times. She is the author of The Future of Seduction.
Mary Fulbrook
Professor Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History at University College London (UCL). Her current research is on experiences of Holocaust survival in different societies across Europe under Nazi domination. She has served as Dean of the UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences, and Chair of the Modern History Section of the British […]
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 […]