Anne Sebba
Anne Sebba is a historian and one of Britain’s most distinguished biographers who began her career as a Reuters correspondent based in London and Rome. She has written eleven works of non-fiction, mostly about iconic twentieth-century women, which have been translated into several languages including French, Polish, Czech, Japanese and Chinese. She makes regular television […]
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand is a rabbi, author, radio broadcaster and leadership trainer for clergy of all faiths. She currently serves as Director of Leadership and Learning at Pears Foundation in London. She has written several books that strive to make Jewish tradition accessible to people of all faiths, including The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales and Scholastic’s All About […]
Mark Malcomson CBE
Mark is Principal and Chief Executive of City Lit. Previously, he was the Director of Executive Education at London Business School and President of the New York Institute of Finance. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year’s Honours List for services to adult education.
Claudia Roden
Claudia Roden is a food writer with a special interest in the history and cultural background of food. Born in Egypt, she specialises in the cuisines of the Middle East and North Africa, the Mediterranean and in Jewish food. Her books are said to have influenced what we eat in Britain today and to have […]
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore FRSL is an internationally bestselling author and historian whose prize-winning books have been published in forty-eight languages. Jerusalem: The Biography was number one non-fiction Sunday Times bestseller, a global bestseller and won The Book of the Year Prize from the Jewish Book Council. Image © Marcus Leoni, Folhapress
Adam Kirsch
Adam Kirsch is the author of several books of poetry and criticism. A 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Kirsch is an editor at the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Review section and has written for publications including The New Yorker and Tablet. He lives in New York. Image © Remy Kirsch
Simon Schama
Sir Simon Schama’s award-winning books include A History of Britain and The Story of the Jews. He has written and presented over 50 films for the BBC on subjects as diverse as Tolstoy and American politics, and he co-presented the landmark series on the history of world art, Civilisations. Image © Charlie Bibby
Maureen Lipman
Apart from being one of the country’s’ best-loved and most versatile actresses and the winner of many awards,including an Olivier, Dame Maureen Lipman has written a number of bestselling books and BBC Radio 4 monologues.
Josh Glancy
Josh Glancy is News Review editor at The Sunday Times. Prior to this he was special correspondent for the paper, reporting from across Britain and the world. Before that he was the paper’s Washington bureau chief and spent five years reporting from across most of America, but never Alaska or the Dakotas. He’s also a columnist for The Jewish News.
Henry Goodman
Henry Goodman is a multi-award-winning actor, including Oliviers for The Merchant of Venice and Assassins. Most recently seen in Golda and HBO’s The Regime, his stage credits include Broadway, the West End, the National Theatre and Chichester and on screen Yes, Prime Minister, Notting Hill, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Their Finest.
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.
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, […]