Miriam Udel teaches Yiddish language, literature, and culture at Emory University. Her books include Never Better!: The Modern Jewish Picaresque (2016), Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature (2020), and a critical study of Yiddish children's literature, forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2025.

Andrew Sperling recently earned his PhD in History from American University in Washington, DC. His dissertation, “The Menace Among Us: American Jews Against Antisemitic Extremism,” follows American Jewish strategies against right-wing radicalism between the 1920s and 1960s. His additional research interests include Jewish refugee experiences and Black and Jewish politics.

Rachel Gordan is the Samuel "Bud" Shorstein fellow in American Jewish Culture at the University of Florida, where she teaches in the Department of Religion and the Center for Jewish Studies. Her first book, Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American, was published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Alona Bach is a PhD candidate in MIT's Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology and Science, Technology, and Society, where her research focuses on interwar discourse about electric light in the New York Yiddish daily Der Morgen zhurnal. She is also an actor, playwright, translator, Yiddish instructor, and illustrator.

Sarah Nimführ is a Hertha Firnberg Fellow at the Department of Cultures Studies at the University of Arts Linz. She holds a PhD in European Ethnology from the University of Vienna. Her dissertation was awarded by the Austrian Federal President in 2019. She teaches, researches, and publishes on collaborative, decolonial knowledge production, negotiations of belonging in the context of forced migration as well as cemetery culture and transgenerational memory work of the Jewish diaspora in the Spanish Caribbean.

Alexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work investigates the departure of approximately 1.5 million Jews from the former Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era. Centering migrant agency, she explores how Soviet Jews re-outlined the USSR's ambivalent stance on population movement and, more specifically, emigration.

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Yale University, where he is writing a dissertation on American Jewish politics and citizenship between the end of slavery and the start of the New Deal. His academic work has appeared in American Jewish History and Southern Jewish History.

Miranda Brethour is a PhD Candidate at the City University of New York's Graduate Center writing a dissertation on rural Polish self-government and the Holocaust in the Lublin region. She received her BA (2017) and MA (2019) in History from the University of Ottawa in Canada. Her research on rural Jewish-Polish relations in German-occupied Poland has featured in The Journal of Holocaust Research, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, and the Journal of Historical Geography.

Alexander Maro is a PhD candidate at New York University's Department of History and Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. His research examines authoritarian and imperial projects, violence, and the Jewish world. He is currently working on his dissertation, which traces the history of anti-Jewish violence on Europe's periphery.