Martha L. Berg has been the Archivist of Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh, PA, since 2001. She holds degrees from Smith College, the School for International Training, and the University of Pittsburgh. She has worked as an Archivist for the Heinz History Center and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and is an archives consultant for families and non-profit organizations. She has published articles on Pittsburgh’s Jewish history and on American Transcendentalism.

Chris Jones is curator/archivist of the Salomons Museum near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, England. After working for nearly forty years in IT, he now concentrates on his first love: historical research. His main interest is the early nineteenth-century development of London and its suburbs. The Salomons family provides a most useful entrée into that world.

Abigail Green is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Brasenose College. She is leading the AHRC funded project: “Jewish Country Houses – objects, networks, people.”

Tamar Fields is the proud daughter of Emily Taitz, an author, women's rights advocate, Jewish women's rights activist, and scholar. It is her mother's inspiring life work and dedication to writing women back into history that led Tamar to contributing to this important encyclopedia project. Tamar is also a Reading Specialist specializing in helping children with dyslexia. She lives with her husband in Massachusetts, where they raised their four sons.

Blu Greenberg grew up in a traditional Orthodox household that helped cement her love and commitment to Jewish law. As she grew, so did a growing dissatisfaction with women’s place in traditional Judaism. Her motto, “don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater,” led her to examine ways that women can have greater roles within Jewish law; her book On Women and Judaism: A View from Tradition inspired a generation of people to embrace being both Orthodox and feminist. Through the founding of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) she carved out the path for Orthodox women to become rabbis and explore greater participation in ritual. Through the creation of the International Beit Din (IBD), she has helped many agunot, women trapped in unwanted marriages.

Sascha Cohen is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Brandeis University, where she studies the relationship between humor and twentieth-century social movements. She teaches in the American Studies department and has written about pop culture for a variety of mainstream publications.

Amy S. Osatinski, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History at Oklahoma City University. Her publications include Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way and the forthcoming 20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century. Osatinski is also a prolific theatre director, helming dozens of productions for professional, educational, and community theatres.

Andrew Markus, AO, is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a researcher in the field of immigration, race relations, and public opinion. He is the past Director of the university’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation.