Oleg Budnitskii (Author)
Oleg Budnitskii is Professor of History in the Faculty of Humanities and Director of the Institute for Advanced Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Moscow. He is the author of seven books, including Russian Jews between the Reds and the Whites (1917-1920).
David Engel (Author)

David Engel is Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of seven books and more than 100 scholarly articles on various aspects of Jewish history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Gennady Estraikh (Author)
Gennady Estraikh is Professor of Yiddish Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.
Anna Shternshis (Author)

Anna Shternshis is the Al and Malka Green Professor of Yiddish studies and director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 - 1939 and When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin.