Beth Kissileff is the author of the novel
Questioning Return and editor of the essay collections
Reading Genesis: Beginnings and
Reading Exodus: Journeys. She has taught at the universities of Pittsburgh and Minnesota and Carleton, Smith, and Mount Holyoke colleges. Her writing has appeared in the
Atlantic, the
New York Times,
Tablet, and
Religion News Service, among others. She is the spouse of Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation, who survived the October 27 attack by hiding himself and others.
Eric Lidji is the director of the Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center. He is the author of
John Riegert and
The Seventeenth Generation: The Lifework of Rabbi Walter Jacob and a co-editor of
Her Deeds Sing Her Praises: Profiles of Pittsburgh Jewish Women. He writes extensively about the Jewish history of Western Pennsylvania and hosts the local Jewish history podcast
The Cornerstone. He has been overseeing the effort to preserve documentation of the October 27 attack.