Dr. Gideon Brettler received his PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2024. He is currently a lecturer at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Giv’at Washington Academic College of Education. His research explores guitar music in early modern Europe as a site of cultural exchange, focusing on print culture, orality, pedagogy, and the social dynamics of performance. Dr. Ekaterina Oleshkevich completed her PhD at Bar Ilan University in 2024. She is currently a Knapp Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studies the discourse on baby farming in the Russian Empire. Dr. Roi Sabar received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2023. Dr. Sabar is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University, where he studies archaeological data as proxies for the state-formation process in Hasmonean Judea.