Allegra Goodman
Allegra Goodman’s novels include 'Sam', 'The Chalk Artist', 'Intuition', 'The Cookbook Collector', 'Paradise Park', and 'Kaaterskill Falls' (a National Book Award finalist). Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She has written two collections of short stories, 'The Family Markowitz' and 'Total Immersion', and a novel for younger readers, 'The Other Side of the Island'. Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hannah Holtschneider
Hannah Holtschneider is Professor of Contemporary Jewish Cultural History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is a cultural historian of twentieth-century Jewish history, with a particular focus on the consequences of the Holocaust, Jewish identities, and Jewish/non-Jewish relations. She is the author of three monographs 'Jewish Orthodoxy in Scotland: Rabbi Dr Salis Daiches and Religious Leadership' (EUP 2019), 'The Holocaust and Representations of Jews: History and Identity in the Museum' (Routledge 2011), 'German Protestants Remember the Holocaust: Theology and the Construction of Collective Memory' (Lit. Verlag 2001), and numerous articles. She is currently working on a family correspondence of Jewish refugees from Kassel.