Joshua Tapper is a historian of Soviet Jewry, the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora, and the contemporary Russian Jewish experience.

A doctoral candidate in Jewish History at Stanford University, his dissertation-in-progress examines the revival of Jewish culture and institutional life in the final years of the Soviet Union. He is currently based in Toronto.

In addition to his academic work, Josh has covered Jewish affairs extensively as a journalist, with contributions to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Jewish Daily Forward, Tablet, and Moment. He has been on staff at the Toronto Star, Canada’s largest-circulation daily, and written for the New York Times, the Globe and Mail, and the Washington Post, among other publications.

He holds master’s degrees in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies from the University of Toronto and magazine journalism from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.