Annie Freud
Annie Freud is a poet, artist, teacher and editor. She has four poetry collections in print with Picador: The Best Man that Ever Was – 2007 The Mirabelles – 2010 (shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize) The Remains – 2015 Hiddensee – 2020. She was included in 2014 Next Generation Poets and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is a 2025 […]
Stephen Duncan
Stephen Duncan is an award winning artist and poet with poetry exploring his German heritage. He is also the editor for his late mother, the poet Beata Duncan, celebrated for her poetry collections on her life in the Weimar period, emigration from Berlin to London and her experience of the London Blitz.
Richard Hurowitz
Richard Hurowitz is a writer and the publisher of the Octavian Report. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, The Times, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, History Today, and the Jerusalem Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he studied history, and of Columbia Law School. Image © Donna Newman
Vivi Lachs
Vivi Lachs is a historian, teacher, author, translator and Yiddish pop singer. She co-hosts the Cockney Yiddish Podcast, runs the Great Yiddish Parade, and sings with the bands Klezmer Klub and Katsha’nes. She is the author of Whitechapel Noise, London Yiddishtown and East End Jews.
Keith Kahn-Harris
Keith Kahn-Harris has been writing about metal since the mid-1990s and he is one of the founders of Metal Studies as a discipline. Alongside his scholarly work, he has written metal journalism for many years, most recently for The Quietus, alongside books on language, and Jewishness. He lives in north London. Image © Zoe Norfolk
Ilana Kurshan
Ilana Kurshan is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. She has worked in literary publishing both in New York and in Jerusalem, serving as a translator, a foreign rights agent, and the book reviews editor of Lilith magazine. If All the Seas Were Ink won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Image © […]
Oren Harman
Professor Oren Harman is Senior Research Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and teaches at the Graduate Program in Science Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University. He was trained in history and biology at the Hebrew University, Oxford, and Harvard, and is a historian of science and a writer.
Toby Haggith
Dr Toby Haggith is a historian who joined IWM’s Film Department in 1988. He is now a Senior Curator in the Department of Second World War and Mid-20th Century Conflict
Esther Freud
Esther Freud is the author of nine previous novels, and her work has been translated into thirteen languages. Her first novel Hideous Kinky was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. After publishing her second book she was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. Her other novels include The Sea House, Mr […]
Stephen Grosz
Stephen Grosz is a practicing psychoanalyst – he has worked with patients for more than forty years. Born in America, he was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford University, and now lives in London. His Number One Sunday Times bestseller, The Examined Life,has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Robin Lustig
Robin Lustig studied politics at the University of Sussex and began his journalistic career as a Reuters correspondent in Madrid, Paris and Rome. He then spent twelve years at The Observer as news reporter, news editor, Middle East correspondent, home affairs editor and assistant editor before moving into broadcasting in 1989. He presented The World […]
Richard Ovenden
Richard Ovenden OBE is the 25th Bodley’s Librarian (since the post was set up in 1600) at the Bodelian Library in Oxford, a post he holds together with being Head of Gardens, Libraries, & Museums (GLAM), and the Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries (the senior executive officer of the Bodleian Libraries). He was awarded […]