The College Commons Podcast

Joshua Leifer: The Jigsaw Puzzle of American Judaism and its Future


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Description: Complicated contours and tortuous fissures emerge as a picture of the American Jewish experience in Tablets Shattered.


Biography: Joshua Leifer is a journalist and historian. He is a columnist for Haaretz.


His essays and reporting have also appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and elsewhere. His first book, Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life (2024), won a National Jewish Book Award.


He is currently a doctoral candidate in history at Yale University, where his research sits at the nexus of modern intellectual history, modern Jewish politics, U.S. foreign policy, and Holocaust memory. His dissertation project examines the politics of antisemitism and the crisis of the liberal order.

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