About
Tony Judt, British historian born in London in 1948, studied at Cambridge and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Professor at New York University, he founded the Remarque Institute and taught at Berkeley, Davis, and Oxford. A specialist in contemporary Europe, he authored numerous works, including 'Postwar' (2005), a major synthesis on Europe since 1945. A prolific essayist, he contributed to The New York Review of Books and The New York Times. Stricken with ALS, he died in 2010 in New York.
* 1948-01-02 — † 2010-08-06
Major works
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005)historical survey
- Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century (2008)essay collection
- Ill Fares the Land (2010)essay
- The Memory Chalet (2010)memoir
- Thinking the Twentieth Century (2012)interviews
Key milestones
- 1995Founded the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- 2005Published 'Postwar', winner of the Arthur Ross Book Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
- 2009Awarded the Special Orwell Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Themes
European historymemory and identityintellectual engagementsocial democracyrole of the historian
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