Joshua Trachtenberg (1904–1959) was a reform Rabbi based in the United States of America.
He received his rabbinical ordination at Hebrew Union College (1936), and went on to serve at multiple congregations.
He worked in many areas of Jewish scholarship including a survey of religious conditions in Israel (1951–52), which was sponsored by the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
1966), which examines the relationship of the medieval conception of antisemitism to the modern variety.
The work contrasted with his earlier pieces, such as Consider the Years (1944), that was instead a history of the Easton Jewish community he had presided in.