Michael Brenner is Distinguished Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC, where he holds the Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and directs the Center for Israel Studies. He is also the Chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Since 2011, he has been the International President of the Leo Baeck Institute. In 2020, he was the first recipient of the Baron Award for Scholarly Excellence in Research of the Jewish Experience. He has published widely on Jewish and Israeli history. His latest book is In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism (Princeton University Press, 2022).

Eric L. Goldstein is Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Emory University, where he also directed the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies for more than a decade. He is the author of the prize-winning book, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (Princeton, 2006), and, with Deborah R. Weiner, On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore (Johns Hopkins, 2018). From 2007 to 2012, he was the editor of the quarterly scholarly journal, American Jewish History.

Rachel Gordan is the Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture & Society at the University of Florida where she is associate professor of religion. She received her BA at Yale and her PhD at Harvard. Her book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American was a Jordan Schnitzer book award finalist. Her academic articles have been published in Jewish Quarterly Review; Jewish Social Studies; The Association of Jewish Studies Review; and Religion and American Culture.

Rebecca Kobrin is the Russell and Bettina Knapp Full Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University. A leading scholar of modern Jewish migration, her work spans international migration, urban history, American religion, and diaspora studies. She is the author and editor of several award-winning books, including Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora, recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer Prize, and Credit to the Nation: East European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and American Finance (2026). She is the co-leader of the acclaimed Historical NYC Project, a digital map visualizing demographic change in New York City from 1850 to 1940. She was awarded Columbia University's 2026 Presidential Teaching Award, the University's most prestigious teaching award. She has also received Columbia University’s Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for excellence in mentorship.

Nicholas Lemann was born and raised in New Orleans. He began his journalism career there as a 17-year-old staff writer for an alternate weekly paper called the Vieux Carre Courier. He graduated magna cum laude in American History and Literature in 1976 from Harvard College, where he was president of The Harvard Crimson. He has worked as a reporter and editor at The Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Washington Post, The Atlantic (where he was national correspondent from 1983 to 1999) and The New Yorker (where he has been a staff writer for 27 years), and contributed to many other publications. From 2003 to 2013, he was dean of Columbia Journalism School, leading a period of significant growth and change for the school, and since then he has been a professor there. At Columbia, he has also helped launch Columbia Global Reports, a publishing venture that he continues to lead, Columbia World Projects, and the Knight Columbia First Amendment Institute. From 2023 to 2025, he served as co-chair of Columbia’s task force on antisemitism. His books include The Promised Land (1991), The Big Test (1999), Redemption (2006), Transaction Man (2019), and Higher Admissions(2024), and, most recently, Returning (2026). He is a member of several honorary societies, including the American Philosophical Society, the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he served as co-chair of the academy’s Commission on Reimagining Our Economy.

Tony Michels is the George L. Mosse Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s the author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York and editor of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary History, among other books. His new book, Tomorrow Is the Question: Jews, Russia, and the Making of the American Left, will be published by Yale University Press in the spring.

Deborah Dash Moore is Jonathan Freedman Distinguished University Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. An historian of American Jews, she specializes in 20th-century urban history. Her recent book, Walkers in the City: Jewish Street Photographers of Mid-Century New York (2023) extends her interest to street photography. Currently, she serves as editor in chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, a ten-volume anthology of original sources translated into English from the biblical period to 2005, selected by leading scholars.

Avinoam Patt is the Maurice and Corinne Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University, where he also serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Dr. Patt previously held the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut, where he served as Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. He is the author of multiple books on Jewish responses to the Holocaust, including Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2009); co-editor of a collected volume on Jewish Displaced Persons, titled We are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2010); and is a contributor to several projects at the USHMM, including Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1938-1940 (2011). He completed a book on the early postwar memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt, 2021). Together with David Slucki and Gabriel Finder, he is co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (2020) and, with Laura Hilton, Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (2020). His most recent books include Israel and the Holocaust (2024), the document collection, The Surviving Remnant: Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2024), and the edited volume, Wit Happens: Global Jewish Humor (2026).

Daniel B. Schwartz is Professor of History at The George Washington University, where he specializes in modern European and American Jewish intellectual, cultural, and urban history. He is the author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (2012) and Ghetto: The History of a Word (2019), as well as the editor of Spinoza’s Challenge to Jewish Thought (2019). He is currently writing Rooms and Ruins: The Making of an Intellectual Capital on New York's Upper West Side. Schwartz chairs the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History and serves as co-editor of the Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture series.

David Sorkin, Lucy G. Moses Professor at Yale, is the author of six books:  The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 (1987);  Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment (1996); The Berlin Haskalah and German Religious Thought (2000); The Religious Enlightenment:  Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna (2008); Jewish Emancipation:  A History Across Five Centuries (2019); and most recently, The Emancipationists:  Nineteenth-Century Jews' Campaign for Citizenship (2026).

Izabella Tabarovsky is a scholar of Soviet antizionism and contemporary antisemitism and the author of Be a Refusenik: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide. She is a fellow with the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism; the Comper Center for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism at the University of Haifa; and the Z3 Institute for Jewish Priorities in Palo Alto.

A contributing writer at Tablet magazine, she has also published in Newsweek, Sapir, Quillette, The National Interest, Fathom, Hadassah Magazine, the Forward, and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Her essays have appeared in several edited volumes, including October 7: The Wars over Words and Deeds (Academic Studies Press); The Rebirth of Antisemitism in the 21st Century: From the Academic Boycott Campaign into the Mainstream (Routledge); Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays (Routledge); Sionismo y antisionismo: Un debate necesario (RiL editores); and Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People (Wicked Son).

Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Polish, Russian, Czech, and other languages.

Britt P. Tevis is an Assistant Professor of History and the Backer Professor of Jewish Studies at Syracuse University. She earned her JD and PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; her work has been published in the Journal of American History, the American Journal of Legal History, and American Jewish History, and she has held fellowships at the Institute for Israel and Judaic Studies at Columbia University, the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Program for the Study of Antisemitism at Yale University. In 2026, she published Sanctioned Bigotry: A Documentary History of Antisemitism in the United States with Yale University Press.