Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, On Violence, and Eichmann in Jerusalem, among numerous other books and essays. Liliane Weissberg is Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities and is a professor of German and comparative literature and chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Amos Elon is the author of eight widely praised books, including "Founder: A Portrait of the First Rothschild" and the "New York Times" bestseller "Israelis: Founders and Son"s. A frequent contributor to "The New York Times Magazine" and" The New York Review of Books," he divides his time between Jerusalem and Tuscany.