Background
Tony Robert Judt was born on January 2, 1948, in London, England, United Kingdom. He was a son of Joseph Judt and Stella S. Judt.
Tony Robert Judt was born on January 2, 1948, in London, England, United Kingdom. He was a son of Joseph Judt and Stella S. Judt.
In 1969 Tony Robert Judt received a Bachelor of Arts in history from King’s College, Cambridge University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in history in 1973. He also attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
From 1972 to 1978 Tony Robert Judt was fellow at King's College, Cambridge. From 1978 to 1980 he was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1980 to 1987 Judt was a fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University. In 1987 he was appointed a professor of history in the Institute of French Studies at New York University (NYU).
In 1995 he became the director of the new Remarque Institute for the study of Europe at NYU, founded with a bequest from the widow of Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet On the Western Front. In 1996 Judt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
His later work was distinguished by its attention to the former Soviet bloc, his application of history to contemporary issues, and his interdisciplinary analysis as demonstrated in Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005). Judt was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in 2008, but he continued to work, criticizing consumer culture and the lack of belief in social democracy in Ill Fares the Land (2010).
Tony Robert Judt was a highly regarded scholar of French history. He was also known for his contributions to European history and his controversial position regarding the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
He was the author of Thinking the Twentieth Century, The Memory Chalet, Ill Fares the Land, Reappraisals, and Postwar, which was one of the New York Times Book Review’s Ten Best Books of 2005 and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His works were launched by literary critics.
(Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert Camus...)
1998(In inspiring essays, a group of internationally renowned ...)
2000(In an age in which the lack of independent public intelle...)
2015(Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Commu...)
1986Tony Robert Judt was married three times, his first two marriages ended in divorce. His third marriage was to Jennifer Homans with whom he had two children.
