Julia Brauch is a political scientist and Anna Lipphardt and Alexandra Nocke are both cultural anthropologists. They were all members of the research group MAKOM at the University of Potsdam, Germany, which between 2001 and 2007 focused on the meaning of place and space within Jewish civilization.
Anna Lipphardt, Julia Brauch, Alexandra Nocke, Miriam Lipis, Manuel Herz, Haim Yacobi, Kenneth Helphand, Susan Gilson Miller, Etan Diamond, Eszter Brigitta Gantner, Mátyás Kovács, Haya Bar-Itzhak, Gilbert Herbert, Yael Zerubavel, Joachim Schlör, Samuel Kassow, Erik Cohen, Shelley Hornstein, Eve Jochnowitz, Galeet Dardashti, Michael Feige, Julian Voloj.