Curator and Scholar

Emily D. Bilski is an expert on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and cultural history, contemporary art, and art and Jewish culture. Bilski has published widely on contemporary art, modernism, and on the interface between art, cultural history, and the Jewish experience.

She has served as curator and consultant to museums and cultural institutions in the United States, Europe, and Israel, and has taught at the Hebrew University’s Helmut Kohl Center for European Studies and in the MA/MFA program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. A graduate of Harvard University, she is the winner of two National Jewish Book Awards.

Curator of Jewish Art and Life, The Israel Museum Jerusalem

Weiser-Ferguson curated many shows and has published books and articles, among them: "Divine Image: depicting God in Jewish and Israeli Art" (2006), "Forging Ahead: Wolpert and Gumbel, Israeli Silversmiths for the Modern Age" (2012), and "Pointing the Way: Women Design Ceremonial Objects" (2013).

Founder and Owner, Rosenbach Contemporary, Jerusalem

Rosenbach served as the CEO and main auctioneer (licensed in New York) of a leading auction house in Israel. His understanding of the makeup and potential of the U.S. market led to the establishment of Stein Rose Fine Art in New York. Rosenbach decided to concentrate his efforts on strengthening the conversation surrounding contemporary Israeli art in Jerusalem and established Rosenbach Contemporary on King David St., one of the only private galleries in Jerusalem to exhibit and promote contemporary Israeli art.

Art Historian, Curator, Art Critic

Dr. David Sperber is an art historian, curator, and art critic. In the past, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University; a David Hartman Center for Intellectual Leadership research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, and as head of the Curatorial Studies Program at the Schechter Institutes, Jerusalem. Currently, he is a student in the Israeli Rabbinical Program at the Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem. In 2012, he co-curated the international exhibition “Matronita: Jewish Feminist Art” at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, in Israel. Sperber’s book Devoted Resistance: Jewish Feminist Art in the United States and Israel was published by the Hebrew University Magnes Press in 2021.

Senior Consultant for Arts and Culture, Jerusalem's Mayor Nir Barkat

Dissenchik served as the CEO of Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center and a personal Consultant of Tel Aviv's Mayor Shlomo Lahat. After she had successfully completed a few major arts and culture projects in Tel Aviv, Dissenchik was hired by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.

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Independent Curator and writer

Cardozo, who grew up in New York City as a member of the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue community, has curated shows for the Bronx Museum of Art, the Yeshiva University Museum and more. As Curator of the Cecil Roth Collection at the Beth Tzedec Museum in Toronto, she helped to create the Judaica gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum. She is one of the founders of Toronto's Ashkenaz Festival of New Jewish Culture, that showcases the work of leading contemporary artists from Canada and around the world working in music, film, theatre, dance, literature, craft and visual arts.

Founder and Director, The Jerusalem Biennale

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