Laura Zittrain Eisenberg is a Teaching Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She is the author of My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948 and many articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Neil Caplan is Scholar-in-Residence at Vanier College and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Concordia University, both in Montreal, Canada. He is author of Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925, Futile Diplomacy, a four-volume study of Arab-Zionist and Arab-Israeli negotiations to 1956, and The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories.
Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) was Israel's first Foreign Minister (1948-1956) and its second Prime Minister (1954-1955). Neil Caplan is author of The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories and of Futile Diplomacy, a 4-volume documentary history of Arab-Israeli negotiations. He is author (with Laura Zittrain Eisenberg) of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: Patterns, Problems, Possibilities. Yaakov Sharett (1927-2022) was the eldest son of Moshe Sharett. He was a diplomat, journalist, editor, translator and founding Director of the Moshe Sharett Heritage Society in Tel Aviv. Yaakov was chief editor of more than a dozen volumes of his father's letters, papers and speeches, including the original diary published in 1978.