Presenters: C

Daniel Cainer

Daniel is a multi-award winning songwriter, storyteller, broadcaster and a veteran of six off-Broadway runs, fifteen years at Edinburgh Fringe and concerts all around the world with his ever-evolving Jewish themed stories-in-song. He also writes music for TV, theatre, radio and synagogues and has recently written songs for Dillie Keane and Maureen Lipman amongst others. Little known fact: he often forgets to remember that he was a Womble. Daniel was ‘christened’ as The Comic Bard of Anglo Jewry by The Jewish Chronicle. Who knew?

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Raphael Cohen-Almagor, DPhil Oxford University; Professor and Chair of Politics, Founding Director of the Middle East Study Group, University of Hull. Raphael taught, inter alia, at Oxford (UK), Jerusalem, Haifa (Israel), UCLA, Johns Hopkins (USA) and Nirma University (India). He was also Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London. Raphael has published extensively in the fields of politics, philosophy, media ethics, medical ethics, law, sociology and history, including most recently Confronting the Internet's Dark Side (2015) and Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (forthcoming), both by Cambridge University Press.

Alexandra Cropper

Alexandra Cropper has been the curator at Manchester Jewish Museum since 2007. During her time, she has been responsible for the museum’s temporary exhibition programme and the care and development of the museum’s collection. As part of the museum’s redevelopment project, she is currently designing MJM’s new exhibition gallery due to open in 2021 and creating a digital platform to celebrate MJM’s incredible collection.