David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including, with Nomi M. Stolzenberg, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York, which was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies.
Nechumi Malovicki-Yaffe is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University. Her research primarily focuses on power dynamics, authority, and the violation of authority and norms. She specializes in using the ultra-Orthodox community, from which she hails, as a case study to gain insights into various social processes. She has authored two books on the ultra-Orthodox community and has published articles in numerous leading journals.
