Dr. Taft is a Research Associate at Monash University with an interest in post-war Jewish immigration. Her publications include From Victim to Survivor: The Emergence and Development of the Holocaust Witness 1941-49 (Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2013) and A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne (Monash Publishing, Melbourne, 2018), shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards. She is currently working on a biography of community leaders Leo and Mina Fink.