Joshua Leifer

Joshua Leifer is a PhD candidate in Yale University's Department of History, where his research sits at the nexus of modern intellectual history, modern Jewish politics, Holocaust memory, and U.S. foreign policy. His dissertation project, "The Liberal Order and the Jewish Question, 1945–2001," explores how intellectuals, policymakers, international political bodies, human rights groups, and religious organizations reconceptualized antisemitism, and how that new understanding was mobilized and deployed in policies that shaped the reconstitution of the postwar liberal West. He is also a journalist whose essays and reporting have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. His first book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life (Dutton 2024) won a National Jewish Book Award.