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.
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Tony Robert Judt attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
King's Parade, Cambridge CB2 1ST, United Kingdom
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.
King's Parade, Cambridge CB2 1ST, United Kingdom
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.
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Tony Robert Judt attended the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
(Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industr...)
Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industrial context for the rise of socialism, Socialism in Provence 1871-1914 offers instead a reinterpretation of the early years of Marxist socialism in France among the peasantry. By focusing on a limited period and a particular region, Judt provides an account both of the character of political behavior in the countryside and of the history of left-wing politics in France.
https://www.amazon.com/Socialism-Provence-1871-1914-Tony-Judt-ebook/dp/B005C9GOSG/?tag=2022091-20
1979
(Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Commu...)
Unlike most books, which treat labor, Socialist and Communist history separately and view French Marxism as a self-contained philosophical phenomenon, Marxism and the French Left offers a refreshingly different approach to the subject. Judt emphasizes the complex and interwoven themes that unify the topics of his essays to construct a distinctive and original interpretation of French left-wing politics over the past 150 years.
https://www.amazon.com/Marxism-French-Left-Politics-1830-1981-ebook/dp/B005D0K81S/?tag=2022091-20
1986
https://www.amazon.com/Resistance-Revolution-Mediterranean-Europe-1939-1948/dp/0415015804/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in Eu...)
The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in European cultural and political life following World War II is the focus of Tony Judt's newest book. He analyzes this intellectual community's most divisive conflicts: how to respond to the promise and the betrayal of Communism and how to sustain a commitment to radical ideals when confronting the hypocrisy in Stalin's Soviet Union, in the new Eastern European Communist states, and in France itself. Judt shows why this was an all-consuming moral dilemma to a generation of French men and women, how their responses were conditioned by war and occupation, and how post-war political choices have come to sit uneasily on the conscience of later generations of French intellectuals.
https://www.amazon.com/Past-Imperfect-French-Intellectuals-1944-1956-ebook/dp/B005D0K85O/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could ...)
I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist. - Tony Judt.
https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Illusion-Essay-Europe/dp/0814743587/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert Camus...)
Through the prism of the lives of Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron, Judt examines pivotal issues in the history of contemporary French society - antisemitism and the dilemma of Jewish identity, political and moral idealism in public life, the Marxist moment in French thought, the traumas of decolonization, the disaffection of the intelligentsia, and the insidious quarrels rending Right and Left. Judt focuses particularly on Blum's leadership of the Popular Front and his stern defiance of the Vichy governments, on Camus's part in the Resistance and Algerian War, and on Aron's cultural commentary and opposition to the facile acceptance by many French intellectuals of communism's utopian promise. Severely maligned by powerful critics and rivals, each of these exemplary figures stood fast in their principles and eventually won some measure of personal and public redemption.
https://www.amazon.com/Burden-Responsibility-French-Twentieth-Century/dp/0226414191/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(In inspiring essays, a group of internationally renowned ...)
In inspiring essays, a group of internationally renowned scholars unravels the moral and political choices facing European governments in the war's aftermath: how to punish the guilty, how to decide who was guilty of what, how to convert often unspeakable and conflicted war experiences and memories into serviceable, even uplifting accounts of national history. In short, these scholars explore how the drama of the immediate past was (and was not) successfully "overcome." Through their comparative and transnational emphasis, they also illuminate the division between eastern and western Europe, locating its origins both in the war and in post-war domestic and international affairs. Here, as in their discussion of collaborators' trials, the authors lay bare the roots of the many unresolved and painful memories clouding present-day Europe.
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Retribution-Europe-Istv%C3%A1n-De%C3%A1k/dp/0691009546/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(This edited collection examines the role that language ha...)
This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member nations is a crucial topic. Drawing on an international cast of contributors, the book explores the issues of monolingualism vs. plurilingualism within individual nations, the revival of languages in nations such as former soviet republics, and concludes with a look at language in the electronic age.
https://www.amazon.com/Language-Nation-State-Multilingual-Transition/dp/1403963932/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated gran...)
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all of Europe, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages to sweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years of political and cultural change-all in one integrated, enthralling narrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read, thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy.
https://www.amazon.com/Postwar-History-Europe-Since-1945/dp/0143037757/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(This collection of essays presents a nearly comprehensive...)
This collection of essays presents a nearly comprehensive understanding of Western and non-Western perceptions of the United States since the Second World War. The book does not seek to attack or defend the United States but rather looks to bring sustained attention to the sources of anti-Americanism, its present variety, and its likely trajectory.
https://www.amazon.com/Against-Anti-Americanism-International-Relations-Political/dp/1403969515/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(The accelerating changes of the past generation have been...)
The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a similarly accelerated amnesia. The 20th century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 was so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it - and the results are proving calamitous. In less than a generation, the headlong advance of globalization has altered structures of thought that had been essentially unchanged since the European industrial revolution. As a result, we have lost touch with a century of social thought and socially motivated activism. In the 24 essays in Reappraisals, Judt resurrects the key aspects of the world we have lost to remind us how important they still are to us now and to our future.
https://www.amazon.com/Reappraisals-Reflections-Forgotten-20th-Century/dp/B0018C4M9Y/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from o...)
A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from one of our most celebrated intellectuals. As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America-the guarantee of security, stability, and fairness-is no longer guaranteed; in fact, it's no longer part of the common discourse. Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far Right and the debunked socialism of the past. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt invigorates our political conversation, furnishing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance and a better way of life.
https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Fares-Land-Tony-Judt/dp/0143118765/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any othe...)
Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love of a London bus route becomes a reflection on public civility. Food and trains and smells all come alive as Judt takes us from the postwar London of his childhood through Paris, Prague, and points east to New York, where he found his home. Judt brings his moral clarity and wit to bear on everything from fast cars to radical politics and, finally, the devastating illness that took his life. This book, composed when Judt was paralyzed and unable physically to write, found its shape in the ordered rooms of a Swiss Chalet of the mind: a warm refuge in the closing darkness of his final years.
https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Chalet-Tony-Judt/dp/0143119974/?tag=2022091-20
2010
("Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Jud...)
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th-century thought.” (Los Angeles Times) One of our most brilliant historians, Tony Judt brings the past century vividly to life in this unprecedented and original history. Structured as a series of intimate conversations between Judt and his friend and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, Thinking the Twentieth Century presents the triumphs and the failures of the twentieth century's most prominent intellectuals and their ideas, guiding readers through the debates that defined our world. Spanning an era with unprecedented clarity and insight, Thinking the Twentieth Century is a tour de force: a masterful analysis of the life of the mind and an unforgettable guide to leading the mindful life.
https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Twentieth-Century-Tony-Judt/dp/0143123041/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(In an age in which the lack of independent public intelle...)
In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and current events, Europe and America, what was and what is with what should be. In When the Facts Change, Tony Judt’s widow and fellow historian Jennifer Homans has assembled an essential collection of the most important and influential pieces written in the last fifteen years of Judt’s life, the years in which he found his voice in the public sphere. Included are seminal essays on the full range of Judt’s concerns, including Europe as an idea and in reality, before 1989 and thereafter; Israel, the Holocaust and the Jews; American hyperpower and the world after 9/11; and issues of social inclusion and social justice in an age of increasing inequality.
https://www.amazon.com/When-Facts-Change-Essays-1995-2010-ebook/dp/B00KWG65HO/?tag=2022091-20
2015
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...)
1986(Departing from the usual emphasis on an urban and industr...)
1979(I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could ...)
1996(Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated gran...)
2005(This collection of essays presents a nearly comprehensive...)
2005("Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Jud...)
2012(The uniquely prominent role of French intellectuals in Eu...)
1992(The accelerating changes of the past generation have been...)
2008(This edited collection examines the role that language ha...)
2004(A gift to the next generation of engaged citizens, from o...)
2010(Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any othe...)
2010Tony 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.
