Meryl Ain, author of the new novel, "Shadows We Carry"

Richard Michelson, poet and children's book author, on his new book of poetry, "Sleeping as Fast as I Can"

Russ Linden, management consultant, author "Loss and Discovery: What the Torah Can Teach Us about Leading Change"

Frederic Brandfon, author of "Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome"

Comedian Gianmarco Soresi

Ambassador Meryl Frank, author, "Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust"

Hadar Orshalimy, on her new album Witchcraft, songs by Jewish women songwriters from the Great American Songbook

Tova Reich, author of the new book "The House of Love and Prayer"

Professor David G. Roskies, the Yiddish authors and the literature of the Holocaust

Nina Siegal, "The Diary Keepers: World War II in The Netherlands as written by the people who lived through it"