Over the past ten years, Isabel Gathof has developed a core competence in the cinematic realization of Jewish subjects as a young filmmaker on an international level and now deals with the Jewish history of Hesse in a multimedia approach.

For her first feature-length cinema documentary “Moritz Daniel Oppenheim - The First Jewish Painter”, Isabel Gathof was awarded the Hessian Newcomer Prize in 2018, among others.

Dr. Birgit Seemann, social scientist and historian, has published numerous works on Jewish biographical and institutional history. She was a lecturer in historical-political education, state theory and business ethics at various universities and colleges for many years.

Her book publications include the first biography of the political professor and anti-Semitism researcher Eleonore Sterling (2013) as well as studies on the Frankfurt Jewish nursing home “Gumpertz'sches Siechenhaus” (2019, with Edgar Bönisch) and on the Jewish order B'nai B'rith in Frankfurt am Main (2023) and in Nuremberg (2024).

Ralph Hofmann, born in Frankfurt in 1952, initially stayed in England after completing his English A-levels and immediately began training as a third-generation smokers' wholesaler - an industry with a long Jewish tradition. Following in the footsteps of his father, Elias Hofmann, sel. A. (twice President of the B'nai B'rith Lodge), he joined the Jewish Order of B'nai B'rith.

As the current president of the lodge, it is an honor for him to do the duty given to people by G'd - in Hebrew “Mitzvah” - to do good. This task fulfills him with satisfaction. Supporting socially disadvantaged or needy people is based on the foundation of humanity, on which the work of the Lodge is primarily based.