Natan M. Meir is the Lorry I. Lokey Professor of Judaic Studies in the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University. A scholar of the social and cultural history of East European Jewry, he is the author of Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859–1914 (2010) and Stepchildren of the Shtetl: The Destitute, Disabled, and Mad of Jewish Eastern Europe, 1800–1939 (2020). He also serves as a museum consultant and leads study tours of Eastern Europe.

Sylvie Anne Goldberg is a professor as well as the director of Jewish Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. Her book Clepsydra: Essay on the Plurality of Time in Judaism was published in 2016. Professor Goldberg is the editor of Comment s’écrit l’histoire juive (How is Jewish  History Written) and is currently working on a new book by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Transmitting Jewish History: In Conversation with Sylvie Anne Goldberg, to be published by Brandeis University Press later this year.