We are legion

I teach film studies at Bangor University in north Wales where I live. I research, write and broadcast regularly (in Welsh and English) on transatlantic Jewish culture and history.

Molly Adams is a horror critic and postgraduate based in Southampton, UK, currently working on a book on the past, present, and future of Jewish horror.

Shai Afsai’s articles and poems have appeared in Anthropology Today, Journal of the American Revolution, Poetica Magazine, Reform Jewish Quarterly, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, and Tablet Magazine.

Sean Alexander is a PhD Candidate at Bangor University, exploring Jewishness and Judaism in the films of David Cronenberg.

Phil Alexander is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he researches historical Scottish-Jewish musical life. His book on Berlin klezmer will be out with OUP very early in 2021.

Emilio Audissino is Honorary Fellow in Film at the University of Southampton and, starting in February 2021, Senior Lecturer in Audiovisual Production at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

David Balsamo is Dean and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chester where he specialises in the study of work and complex organisations. Before entering academia David worked as a painter and decorator, operating theatre technician and probation officer. Originally from North London, now based in Chester, he is a dog walker, cyclist and amateur psychogeographer.

Aidan Beatty is a historian of Irish and Jewish history, with interests in race, gender and capitalism. He teaches at the Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh

Carole Bent is a creative catalyst, art partner, writer and advocate for social justice.  Described as ‘ seeing ahead quicker than anyone else you know ‘ and ' someone who based on her values is prepared to take bold steps to achieve extraordinary results’.

Professor Berkowitz, a native of Rochester, New York, received his BA from Hobart College (Geneva, New York) and his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He is currently a Professor of Modern Jewish History at University College London.

Mark Bernheim is an Emeritus Professor of World Literatures and Journalism. He taught for four decades at various American universities and in France, Italy, and Austria as Fulbright professor. Specialties included Children’s Literature, Jewish Studies, and design journalism.

Ophir Jacob Bitton was born in Israel to Moroccan parents.  He immigrated to the United States in 1978 as a child.  He writes about Jewish spirituality, culture, family life, nature and social justice issues he experiences as an attorney.  He has self-published a collection of poetry written about his courtship of his wife (Becoming Eyes, Aventine Press 2008), and his poetry has recently been published in the Jewish Literary Journal and Poetica Magazine.

Bruce Black is the author of Writing Yoga (Rodmell Press/Shambhala) and editorial director of The Jewish Writing Project. He received his BA from Columbia University and his MFA from Vermont College. His work has appeared in Elephant Journal, Blue Lyra Review, Tiferet Journal, Hevria, Poetica, Reform Judaism, The Jewish Literary Journal, Mindbodygreen, Yogi Times, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and elsewhere. He lives in Sarasota, FL.

Helen Blejerman is an artist and writer based in Sheffield, UK, originally from Mexico City. She works as an associate lecturer in the Department of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.

Rabbi Dr Barbara Borts has a BA from the University of California,  she moved to London to study at Leo Baeck College and was ordained in 1981. In 2014, she completed a PhD thesis entitled Mouths Filled with Song: Anglo-Reform Judaism through the Lens of its Music at Durham University.

Ross Bradshaw runs Five Leaves Bookshop and its associated publishing house in Nottingham

David Brauner is a Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Reading. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary monograph on authenticity and confessional culture in post-war America.

Vincent Brook is a lecturer in media studies at UCLA. He has written or edited 10 books, most dealing with Jewish issues in film and television.

Georgia Burns in an English teacher in the North East of England

Michele Byers is professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She just finished reading I Love to Watch and wonders about an alternate universe where her love affair with Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned into a job as a TV critic for The New Yorker rather than a PhD (about Buffy).

Jennifer Caplan is the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Her book, Funny, You Don’t Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials was published in 2023 and she is currently working on a book on Jewish identity in comic books.

Julie Carbonara is a journalist who regularly writes for the Jewish Chronicle and a number of other publications.

Hayden Cohen is a writer, performer and podcaster. Season 2 of The Bagel Podcast (which he hosts and produces) will be released in the autumn.

Gus Condeixa is the Creative Director of The Jewish Chronicle and former Creative Director of the Jewish Quarterly and Chiado Editora. Captain of a pirate ship. He is also an artist working with video and installation. Retired goalkeeper for Alexandra Park FC and Crouch End Vampires FC. Before Covid, part-time Muay Thai fighter and MMA enthusiast.

Tim Cowen is a barrister and part-time judge in London. He occasionally lectures on Jewish topics and writes Jewish fiction in easily digestible instalments.

Yvette Deane is a freelance writer interested in politics and Jewish culture. She began her professional career on a Fulbright grant at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously a Breaking News Editor, Yvette has experience writing for newspapers and think tanks. She has a Master's in International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from the Macaulay Honors College at Queens College in political science and sociology.

Sarah Deech is a freelance journalist and media trainer.

Kirk Degiorgio is a UK based record producer/DJ and writer. He has written various articles on music culture for The Wire, Dazed & Confused, Wax Poetics, etc.

Martin is a community development worker who provides training for public sector organisations on various aspects of LGBTI+ rights, including intersex and neurodiversity, as well as being an advocate for religious literacy among LGBTI+ communities. He is a member of the Society for Humanistic Judaism and grew up in Hereford and Worcester to a mixed British-Italian-Albanian family. He is also a sociolinguist with a Masters in Language Documentation for endangered languages and has a BA in Anthropology and Community Development. He has previously worked with the CPS to improve the police force’s response to hate crime reports from marginalised communities.

Zanne Domoney-Lyttle is a tutor in Biblical Studies (Hebrew Bible) at the University of Glasgow. Zanne specialises in the reception of biblical women in contemporary cultural products, feminisms and the Bible, and activism in religious communities.

James Downs is Archivist of the Middle East collections at the University of Exeter, editor of Photographica World, author of Anton Walbrook. A Life of Masks and Mirrors (2020), Joseph Pike: the ‘happy Catholic artist’ (2017), A Carnal Medium: fin-de-siècle essays on the photographic nude (2013) and various articles in journals such as The Innes Review, Studies in Photography, Source, Early Popular Visual Culture and Ancient Egypt.

David Drimer, the former associate publisher of the Forward, is the executive director of the Jewish Federation of Ulster County (UCJF.org) and co-founder of the National Holocaust Awareness Initiative (NHAIonline.org).

Marta Dziurosz translates across Polish and English, negotiates publishing contracts, organises literary events and writes about scents.

Alastair Falk has been a Head of three schools, Chief Executive of the Birmingham Education Partnership and founding Director of Partnerships for Jewish Schools. He now works as a consultant to a campaign for a longer-term approach to English education policy.

Joseph Finlay is a PhD student researching Jewish responses to Race Relations in Postwar Britain at the University of Southampton.

Born in London, UK, he graduated as a mature student with BA Fine Arts in 1995 and in 2011 completed his MA in fine art at the City and Guilds London Art College.

Emma Franks is a practising visual artist, committed to producing work that explores the female narrative and perspective.

Deborah Chagal Friedland is a writer and editor working in international educational publishing. She was the chair of Education of the Oxford Jewish Community for several years and now lives in Dorset.

Danielle Friel is a student at Bangor University

Elliot B. Gertel is the Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Rodfei Zedek in Chicago. He has been film and television reviewer of the "National Jewish Post and Opinion" since 1979. His books include What Jews Know About Salvation and Over the Top Judaism: Precedents and Trends in the Depiction of Jewish Beliefs and Observances in Film and Television.

Steven Gimbel is Professor of Philosophy and an affiliate of the Jewish Studies program at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He is author of Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion, Einstein: His Space and Times, and Isn't that Clever: A Philosophy of Humor and Comedy.

Laura Godfrey-Isaacs is an artist, midwife, creative producer and birth activist.

Dr Thea Gomelauri is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, and a former Chevening Fellow at the University of Oxford.  She is the member of the British Association of Jewish Studies, and serves on the Board of the Oxford Council of Christians and Jews.

Louis Gordon, is an Immigration Defense Attorney and Political Science Professor at California State University at San Bernardino. His is co-author of Middle East Politics for the New Millennium (Lexington Books, 2016).

Alex Gordon is a native of Kiev (Soviet Ukraine, USSR) and graduate of the Kiev State University and Haifa Technion (Doctor of Science, 1984).

Jaclyn Granick is a Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at Cardiff University and author of International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War.

Debbie Green has an MA in Applied Linguistics and English Language teaching and works teaching English Language to international students. She lives in London.

Mila Tanya Griebel is a British silversmith and modern Judaica maker. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Mila has over thirty years’ experience of designing and making Jewish ritual objects for synagogues, collections and family homes.

Nigel Grizzard, originally from North East London, has lived in Leeds for many years. He is the Jewish Heritage Guide for Yorkshire (when tours are allowed) and enjoys working with people to help them find their roots.

Dora Guennes lives in Lisbon, has two cats and two daughters. Studied Literature, Library Science and other things. Did many different jobs.Loves words. Loves stories and History. Doesn't like pop music that much. Writes during her work hours, but don't tell that to anyone.

François Guesnet is Professor in Modern Jewish History in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London. He holds a PhD in Modern History from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, and specializes in the early modern and 19th century history of Eastern European, and more specifically, Polish Jews.

Rachel S. Harris is Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Her recent books include Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Wayne State University Press, 2019), An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2014) and Casting a Giant Shadow: The Transnational Shaping of Israeli Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2021)

Born in Nottingham in 1982, James Harris is a writer and comedian resident in London.

Margaret Harris is Professor Emerita, Aston University, Birmingham. She has published numerous books and articles on volunteering, charity management, charity boards, community cohesion, faith- based organisations and corporate philanthropy. Since retiring, she has served as a trustee of the Jewish Volunteering Network and has been writing memoir pieces about her 1950s childhood.

Elyce Rae Helford is professor of English, director of Jewish and Holocaust Studies, and faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research centers on gender, ethnicity, and race in US media, including her recent book, What Price Hollywood? Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor (2020).

Tamar Hodes is a Jewish writer, Israeli-born, and living in the UK since childhood. Her short stories have appeared in Salt’s Best British Stories, A Treasury of Jewish Stories, Lilith, Manna and have broadcast on Radio 4. She has had two novels published, Raffy’s Shapes (Accent Press, 2006) and The Water and the Wine (Hookline Books, 2018).

Eran Hornick is a nature writer living in Boston, Massachusetts, whose creative nonfiction reflects his love of mountains, the high latitudes of North America, and the people who inhabit these landscapes. He has worked rehabilitating endangered sea turtles in Boston and griffon vultures in Israel. He coauthored the collection And Then There Is Everything in 2013.

Clarissa Hyman writes about food, travel and culture and is the author of five books including the award-winning 'The Jewish Kitchen.' She has also twice won the prestigious Glenfiddich Food Writer of the Year Award and is a former vice-president of the UK Guild of Food Writers. She is based in Manchester and belongs to the Menorah Synagogue.

Dan is a founder of JewThink, admin of SAAS, editor of DailyJews, Chair of the JVS, and a Technology consultant.  In his spare time he sleeps.

Laura Jacobs is a London based artist. She studied at Camberwell, Central Saint Martins and the New York Studio School of Drawing Painting and Sculpture where she won a scholarship. In 2011, she was chosen from thousands to participate in the BBC TV’s "Show Me The Monet”.  Jacobs has exhibited across the UK, New York and The Seychelles, and her work is in public and private collections in the UK, USA, Holland and the Seychelles.

Martin is a retired career counsellor from Jewish Family Services in Beachwood, Ohio.  He is a musician and writes and performs music with his wife Sheila Ives.

Günther Jikeli, historian and sociologist, holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism/ Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is an associate professor at Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies. He is a permanent fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center at Potsdam University. Together with Olaf Gloeckner he published “The New Unease. Antisemitism in Germany Today” [in German] in 2019.

Jonathan Judaken is the Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities at Rhodes College. He has published more than 60 academic articles on the history of existentialism, anti-Semitism, racism, and post-Holocaust French Jewish thought.

Dr Keith Kahn-Harris is a senior lecturer at Leo Baeck College, runs the European Jewish Research Archive at the IJPR and is an Honorary Fellow of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck College. His most recent book is Strange Hate: Antisemitism, Racism and the Limits of Diversity (Repeater 2019).

Adam Kammerling is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist and educator.   His most recent works include Seder, his debut poetry collection which was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards,  Shall We Take This Outside, a three-person spoken-word/dance theatre piece that toured nationally, and Inside!, a piece of poetry/rave theatre commissioned by Centrepoint and the Saatchi Gallery.

Robert Katz is a sculptor and Professor of Art at the University of Maine at Augusta. His sculptural installations have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States. Katz serves on the Board of Directors of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine. 

Marc Kaye is the author of several articles and blogs featured in Working Mother, Stage Time Magazine, Chutzpah Magazine, Bucks County Alive and Green Energy Times. A Content Strategy and Engagement Leader by day and comedian, actor, and songwriter by night, he has developed several screenplays, short plays, web series and featured skits. His series of essays is set for release in 2022.

Clive Kennard is an Art Historian specialising in Anglo-Jewish history and material culture. He is currently completing a PhD about Simeon Solomon at the University of York

Abda Khan is a lawyer turned writer, and won British Muslim Woman of the Year 2019.

Loolwa Khazzoom (KHAZZOOM.com) is an Iraqi-American Jewish musician, writer, and educator. She is the editor of The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage, and her work has been featured in top media including The New York Times, Marie Claire, and Rolling Stone.

Ruti Lachs is a musician, writer, and music teacher living in Crosshaven in County Cork, Ireland.

Joshua Lander finished his PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2019 and has recently completed his PGDE at Strathclyde University. He is currently researching British Jewish literature's responses to the Holocaust.

Phyllis Lassner is Professor Emerita at Northwestern University and has published books and articles on British women writers and Holocaust representation and most recently co-edited The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture.

Isa L. Levy is an artist, actress and arts psychotherapist.

Sarah Lightman is an artist, writer and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. She has a PhD from University of Glasgow Her first graphic novel is The Book of Sarah (Myriad Editions and Penn State UP 2019), and she is currently editing her monograph, Dressing Eve and Other Reparative Acts in Women’s Autobiographical Comics (Penn State UP). She teaches at The Royal Drawing School, London.

Born and raised in Glasgow I have been at The Glasgow School of Art since 2013, where I lead the MSc in Visualisation (Medical, Heritage, Games & VR). The main theme of my current work is the application of 3D interactive technologies for education, learning and public engagement.

Barnaby Marder founded the Socialists Against Antisemitism social media page. He is a member of the Labour Party and of Jewish Labour Movement, and lives in Richmond-upon-Thames.

Harry's day job is monitoring the development impact of infrastructure projects for PIDG, and in his spare time he is Chair of Grassroots Jews. He used to blog about politics, capitalism, and development, but stopped a while ago, because he's lazy. His opinions are in a personal capacity. "

Jayden Jasper-Lee Martin is a scholarship student at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University and a regular contributor to the Paradigm Press, who believes in civic engagement and self-determination for all people.

Lucy is an academic and NGO researcher currently based in Leicester. She knows lots of things about food, farming, water, energy and climate change, and has spent the past few months growing vegetables with her kids.

Joshua Michaels is an attorney in Honolulu, Hawaii and a member of Temple Emanu-El in Nu'uanu.  After studying at Roehampton University in London, he worked as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal and co-host of The Blue Hawaii Podcast.  

Robert "Smokey" Miles is a recording artist, singer/songwriter, poet, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, actor, host, comedian and visual artist. As his alter-ego Count Smokula, he has been described as a Yiddish Dracula or as Bela Lugosi meets Jackie Mason, and is considered to be a cult icon. He is a graduate of Princeton University and has performed internationally.

Dana is the Director of Development and Foreign Relations at Peace Now.

Lara is a 40-something Black Jewish mother, friend and everything else beautiful in between from Inner London. In her spare time, she shares the best, worst and often complex simplicity of being a Blewish (Black and Jewish) woman in the UK.

Michal Nahman is interested in Jewish identities and migration. A Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol, she has taught and written about gender, sexuality, visual culture, reproductive politics and race/racism.  Her new project about food and Mizrachi identities can be found on Instagram and here:

Ruth Novaczek is an artist, filmmaker, performance artist and writer. She has a PhD by practice from the University of Westminster, is on the faculty of the lo-res Transart Institute in Berlin and a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck College, London.

DOD works as an archivist at Tate, is a contributing writer to Cineaste, and is completing a PhD on Stephen Dwoskin at the University of Reading.

Davida Pines is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. Her first book was titled The Marriage Paradox: Modernist Novels and the Cultural Imperative to Marry (University of Florida Press).

This is an extract from Modern Times: The Biography of a Hungarian-Jewish Family, published by Brandram in the UK in 2021. Stephen Pogany is a writer, political commentator and literary translator, currently based in Budapest Hungary. He has taught at the universities of Edinburgh, Hull, Exeter, City University, London and Warwick, as well as at the Central European University, Budapest. He is currently working on a book with the provisional title: Transylvania: An Alternative History of Europe.

Shmuel Polin is an imminent rabbi from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR). A Greater Philadelphia/New Jersey native, he completed his B.A. at American University in Washington D.C. where he studied Jewish Studies and International Studies.

M.J. Popplewell is retired after a career working in publishing as commissioning editor for the history and politics of the Middle East. Her interest in Israel began in the early 1970s as a volunteer on Kibbutz Misgav Am. Afterwards she studied Hebrew and Arabic at the University of Jerusalem.

Jo-Ellen Pozner is an Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University. Her academic research focuses on social evaluation, social movements, corporate wrongdoing, and organizational misconduct; she writes on the intersection of fashion, meaning, and public life for fun.

Jay Prosser is working on a book about his Asian-Jewish family. He is reader in humanities at the University of Leeds.

Daniel Randall (DR) is a railway worker, trade union representative, and socialist activist based in London. He was written extensively about antisemitism, especially on the left. His book Confronting Antisemitism on the Left: Arguments for Socialists was published in 2021 by No Pasaran Media

Marf is the pen-name of Martha Richler, a cartoonist and artist with an academic background in art history (Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia).

Dan Rickman is an alumnus of Hasmonean High School and Oxford University who currently works in the IT industry. He has an MA in Hebrew and Jewish studies from the University of London, looking at attitudes in the Talmud to non-Jew and is author of a number of articles in the Jewish Chronicle, the Guardian, Huffington Post and Ynetnews

Simon Rosenberg is a writer and filmmaker. His debut novel 'You are not You' was published in 2018.

Laurie is a Jewish Educator and teacher with a wide and varied professional background both within and beyond the Jewish community in the UK and internationally.

Mandy Ross has written over 60 children's books as well as poetry and plays for adults. She edited Jewish Motherhood with Ronne Randall (Five Leaves Publications).

Efram Sera-Shriar is a Copenhagen-based historian and writer. He received his PhD from the University of Leeds and has worked in higher education and the museum sector for nearly twenty years. Sera-Shriar has published extensively on the history of science and belief, and his forthcoming book, Psychic Investigators, explores British anthropology’s engagement with modern spiritualism during the late Victorian era. He is currently developing a new book project that will be a micro-historical study of Harry Price’s investigation of William Hope’s spirit photography in 1922.

Jack Shamash is a Journalist, crime writer, philatelist, father of two and rabbit owner.

Miki Shaw is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer based in London.

Ellis Shuman is an American-born Israeli author, travel writer, and book reviewer. His writing has appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, The Oslo Times, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of The Virtual Kibbutz, Valley of Thracians, and The Burgas Affair. Ellis lives with his wife, children, and grandchildren on Moshav Neve Ilan, outside Jerusalem.

Dr Karen E H Skinazi is a literary and cultural critic who works as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Liberal Arts at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture.

Caroline Slifkin is an artist and a freelance Holocaust educator who specialises in teaching about the Holocaust through Holocaust Arts. A Fellow of the Imperial War Museum London in Holocaust Education, with her project in Holocaust Arts Education, ‘Art in the Shadow of Death,’ delivered to school and colleges with a generous grant from the Arts Council England. A Fellow of Royal Holloway, University of London in Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation. Caroline is a Yad Vashem graduate, who has received Yad Vashem Graduate grants to further develop her work in Holocaust Arts Education. 

Dr. David Sperber is an art historian – until recently a postdoctoral associate at the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University. Currently, he is a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. Sperbers’ forthcoming book to be published by the Hebrew University Magnes Press is entitled Devoted Resistance: Jewish Feminist Art in the US and Israel.

Emily Steinberg is a Philadelphia based artist. She earned her M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and has exhibited work in the United States and Europe. Most recently, her first cartoon was accepted into The New Yorker Magazine. Her autobiographic novel, Graphic Therapy, was published serially at Smith Magazine, 2008-2010. She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Penn State University, Abington College and Artist in Residence at Drexel College of Medicine in Philadelphia.

Kenneth S. Stern is the director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate and an attorney and award-winning author. For twenty-five years, he was the American Jewish Committee's expert on antisemitism, and he was also the lead drafter of the “Working Definition of Antisemitism."

Rabbi Ariel Stone of Congregation Shir Tikvah in Portland Oregon leads the Portland Interfaith Clergy Resistance

Jarrod Tanny is Associate Professor of History and the Charles and Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He writes and publishes on various “Jewy” topics, including Jewish humor in post-World War II America and its place within the larger context of Jewish history.  

Debby spent many years working as an award-winning clinical care specialist in the field of drugs and prostitution. Debby is now the Vice President of Aberdeen Synagogue and Jewish Community Centre. She leads the small team trying to save the synagogue in Aberdeen, fundraises, advocates on behalf of the community, visits schools and other organisations to talk about Judaism and gives synagogue tours to local groups.

Mark Taylor is Honorary Treasurer of the Aberdeen Hebrew Congregation

CATHERINE TEMMA DAVIDSON is a novelist, poet and essayist who grew up in California and now lives in the UK. Her first novel, The Priest Fainted, was chosen as a notable book of the year by both The New York and LA Times.  She teaches Creative Writing at Regent’s University in London.

Professor Sue Vice is a lecturer at Sheffield University's School of English.  She teaches film courses and has written books and published several articles on the Holocaust.

Alana M. Vincent is the Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination at the University of Chester and the President of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture. She works on religion and literature and Jewish post-holocaust thought; her current book project, The Consequences of Imagination: Holocaust Representation and the Politics of Reconciliation in American Popular Culture, investigates the presentation of Holocaust memory in Marvel comics and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Daniella Vinitski Mooney is a part-time lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and freelance performer and dramaturg trained through the NYU Tisch School and the Royal Academy in London.  Her creative and academic areas of expertise are acting, directing, physical dramaturgy, and the immersive theatre framework.  She is also a dual Canadian/American citizen

Ruben Vis is a Jewish leader in the Netherlands and serves on the boards of several national interreligious affairs committees including the NIK – the umbrella organization of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands and the CJO -- Central Jewish Organization of the Netherlands, the representative organization of the Jewish community to the Dutch government.

Yair Wallach is Senior Lecturer in Israeli Studies at SOAS, University of London, where he is also the head of the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies. His book on the street-texts of modern Jerusalem was published in 2020 by Stanford University Press.

Donald Weber writes on Jewish American literature and popular culture.  His current project is a book on OTD cultural expression titled "On and Off the Derech: A Family Story."  He divides his time between Mohegan Lake, NY and Brooklyn.

Dominic Williams is Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Northumbria University, UK.  With Keith Kahn-Harris, he has co-edited Metal, Jews and the Holocaust, a special issue of the journal Metal Music Studies (September 2020).

Myra Woolfson grew up in Glasgow and has lived in Nottingham for many years.

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Mira is a writer and maker who roots herself in Mizrahi feminisms. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Studio Art from Mount Holyoke College in May of 2021. Her love for the global mosaic of Jewish and Muslim peoples knows no bounds, informing all of her work and her future hopes for a just world.