Velvl Chernin is a poet and literary researcher. Author of 10 collections of poetry in Yiddish and numerous articles on the history of Jewish literature. Was born in Moscow in 1958. In 1990 he made aliyah. Received a doctorate at Bar-Ilan. He taught Jewish literature at the universities of Israel, Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Co-editor of the literary journal "Yiddishland" and the book series "Bibliotek fun der haynttsaytiker yidisher literatur" ("Library of Contemporary Yiddish Literature").

Sandra Chiritescu is a PhD Candidate in Yiddish Studies at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the intersection of Jewish-American literature and the second wave feminist movement.

She is a managing editor at In geveb.

Polina Shepherd is a performer, composer, educator, cultural activist originally from Novosibirsk. When living in Tatarstan and studying at the State Academy, she played Russia′s first klezmer band after Perestroika, and toured the world with her vocal quartet Ashkenazim. Most recent collaborations: The Stranniki folk-cabaret with Psoy Korolenko and 150 Voices, a recorded collaboration between Polina, Lorin Sklamberg and choirs in the UK and the USA.

Deborah Strauss is an internationally acclaimed klezmer violinist and educator who has been a leader in the klezmer and Yiddish music scene for over 30 years. She is a member of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, was a long-time member of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, one of the premiere groups of the klezmer revival, and has performed with the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics. She has appeared on numerous recordings, was featured in the Emmy Award-winning film, Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House, and appears in the film, Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem.

Dvora Zylberman is a Yiddish and Jewish Studies teacher at Sholem Aleichem College. She lives and breathes Yiddish language and culture, having studied Yiddish all across the globe. Dvora contributes to various Yiddish projects and runs her own Yiddish educational resources website ‘Mameloshn’. A graduate of Monash University, she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Arts/Education with a major in Jewish Civilisation. Dvora currently serves as the co-vice president of the Jewish Labour Bund Inc.

Reyzl Zylberman is a Yiddish educator in Melbourne. She is the Director of Jewish Studies and Languages at Sholem Aleichem College in Melbourne, Australia. She has a BA/B.Ed and Honours (Arts) Degree from Monash University. Her honours thesis, 'Building a Bundist Community: Transplanting the Jewish Labour Bund and the SKIF Youth Movement from Poland to Melbourne', focused on the early years of the Bund in Melbourne and, specifically, the establishment of the SKIF youth movement in Melbourne. She is the co-founder of Melbourne's Yiddish choir, 'Mir Kumen On'. Reyzl is active in a variety of Yiddish community organisations in Melbourne, including Yiddish Australia, the Jewish Labour Bund and the Penina Zylberman Yiddish Cultural and Educational Foundation Inc.