| Israel Bartal | Prof. Bartal is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Hebrew University. Having written many books and hundreds of articles, he is one of the world's leading figures in the history of Eastern European culture and the history of the Yishuv in Palestine. He is also known as an engaging teacher and has lectured widely to both academic and popular audiences. |
| Malachi Beit-Arie | Prof. Beit-Arie holds the Ludwig Jesselson Chair in Codicology and Paleography at Hebrew University. He is the undisputed authority in his field and he revolutionized the study of Hebrew manuscripts. He has published widely in the various fields of the History of human knowledge and book lore. He was for many years the director of the National and University Library in Jerusalem which earned world-wide prestige under his direction. |
| Yaakov Elman | Yaakov Elman is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Authority and Tradition and The Living Prophets. He specializes in talmudic and rabbinic literature and is well known as an exciting teacher to both scholarly and lay audiences. He has published extensively in his field and in the allied fields of ancient and medieval Jewish thought. |
| Tamar El-Or | Prof. El-Or is Lecturer of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University. Her field of interest is literacy, gender, and religion . She has recently published a book on the world of ultraorthodox Jewish women. Her interpretations and insights on this topic have engendered widespread interest beyond academic circles. |
| Daphna Ephrat | Daphna Ephrat is from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Open University of Israel. She writes and teaches courses on the history of Islamic religion and Muslim education. She received her doctoral degree from Harvard University. She is currently working on a book titled "An Educated Elite in a Period of Transition: The Religious Scholars of Eleventh-Century Baghdad and the Transmission of Islamic Learning and Tradition." |
| David Fishman | Prof. Fishman , who received his Masters and Doctoral degrees from Harvard University, teaches modern Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. His area of expertise is the cultural and religious history of East European Jewry. His current research centers on Yiddish culture in Tsarist Russia in the early 20th-century and will explore the development of diaspora nationalism. |
| Israel Gershoni | Prof. Gershoni is Professor of Modern Middle East History in the department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His major fields of research and interest are Nationalism and National Identities in the modern Middle East, and the cultural and intellectual history of modern Egypt. His most recent book, which he co-authored with James Jankowski, is Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930-1945. |
| Jeffrey Grossman | Jeffrey. Grossman received his doctoral degree in 1992 from the University of Texas, Austin. He has published articles on the problems of literary transmission and intellectual history related to 19th and 20th century German and Jewish culture. His work on the cultural differences between German and Eastern European Jews, Jewish responses to stigmatization, and the cultural politics of Yiddish, is considered exemplary by his colleagues in the field. |
| Alfred Ivry | Prof. Ivry is the Skirball Professor of Jewish Thought at New York University. He is a distinguished scholar of both Islamic and Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages. Before coming to NYU he taught for many years at Brandeis University. He holds a leadership position with the North-American Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy and the American Academy for Jewish Research. |
| Ruth Katz | Prof. Katz is the Alexandre Professor of Musicology at Hebrew University. She has published extensively on the traditions and transmission of music among Jewish ethnic groups. Prof. Katz has achieved in an international reputation in her field and is Chairman of the Graduate Faculty of the Humanities at Hebrew University. |
| Robert Kraft | Prof. Kraft is the Berg Professor of Religious Studies at the Harvard University. He is a foremost scholar in the field of the biblical text and of Judaism and Christianity in late antiquity. He has a special interest in the computer-aided study of biblical texts and has devoted much time to the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies project. |
| Paul Mandel | Prof. Mandel teaches Hebrew Literature at Hebrew University, specializing in Midrashic and Aggadic Literature. He was awarded the Abraham I. Katsch prize in Hebrew literature from the Hebrew University in 1994 and has published articles on ancient rabbinic exegesis and the transmission of talmudic literature. |
| Ronit Meroz | Prof. Meroz is an assistant professor of Jewish Thought at Hebrew University. She is one of the leading figures among a younger generation of scholars of the Kabbalah. She is known as a dynamic teacher who has introduced Jewish mysticism to both Israeli and American students. Her field of expertise is Lurianic Kabbalah, on which she has published many essays. |
| Shalom Paul | Prof. Paul is Professor of Bible and Chair of the Bible Department at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Before making aliyah he taught for many years at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York where he was ordained as a rabbi. He is the author of many books, including a recent commentary on the Book of Amos. Paul is known as a charismatic and dynamic teacher of Bible who has charmed generations of students both in the U.S. and Israel. |
| Marc Saperstein | Prof. Saperstein the Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, and the Chair of the Jewish and Near Eastern Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He has authored several important books on the topic of sermons, including his well-known Jewish Preaching. Before joining the faculty at Washington University, he received his doctoral degree from Harvard University and taught at the Harvard Divinity School. |
| Yochanan Silman | Prof. Silman holds the Y. Mazur Chair in Jewish and General Philosophical Thought at Bar-Ilan University. He is currently engaged in research on philosophic implications and grounds of halakha and is working on a book titled The Torah -- Perfection or Perfecting. He has published widely in his field and is also an accomplished lecturer. |