Moshe Rosman is Professor Emeritus  of Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University. His books include “The Lords’ Jews: Magnate-Jewish Relations in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” ”Founder of Hasidism: A Quest for the Historical Ba’al Shem Tov,” and “How Jewish Is Jewish History?,” among others. He is the recipient of many awards, including the National Jewish Book Award, Zalman Shazar Prize, and the Jerzy Milewski Award. 

James Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History and Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia. His books include “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” and “The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire,” for which he won numerous awards. He is currently working on “The Beautiful Crime: Raphael Lemkin, between Holocaust and Genocide” and “Blind Justice: Antisemitism and Law in Modern America.  

Michał Trębacz, head of the Research Department at POLIN Museum, is the author of “Izrael Lichtenstein (1883–1933). Biografia żydowskiego socjalisty” and coeditor of „Zagłada Żydów na polskiej prowincji” and „Józef Zelkowicz. Notatki z getta łódzkiego. He is a member of the editorial team of the full edition of the “Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto” and the” Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto / Litzmannstadt Ghetto 1941–1944,” both of which won awards. He is currently work on “Shmuel Zygielbojm. A Wartime Biography”. 

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University, is Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of POLIN Museum’s Core Exhibition, and cocurator of the Legacy gallery and coeditor of “Legacy of Polish Jews,” with Tamara Sztyma. Her books include “Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage” and “They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust” (with Mayer Kirshenblatt).