Tony Judt (1948 2010) was raised in the East End of London by a mother whose parents had immigrated from Russia and a Belgian father who descended from a line of Lithuanian rabbis. Judt was educated at Emanuel School, before receiving a BA (1969) and PhD (1972) in history from the University of Cambridge.
Like many other Jewish parents living in postwar Europe, his mother and father were secular, but they sent him to Hebrew school and steeped him in the Yiddish culture of his grandparents, which Judt says he still thinks of wistfully. Urged on by his parents, Judt enthusiastically waded into the world of Israeli politics at age 15. He helped promote the migration of British Jews to Israel. In 1966, having won an exhibition to King's College Cambridge, he took a gap year and went to work on kibbutz Machanaim. When Nasser expelled UN troops from Sinai in 1967, and Israel mobilized for war, like many European Jews, he volunteered to replace kibbutz members who had been called up. During and in the aftermath of the Six-Day War, he worked as a driver and translator for the Israel Defense Forces.
But during the aftermath of the war, Judt's belief in the Zionist enterprise began to unravel. "I went with this idealistic fantasy of creating a socialist, communitarian country through work," Judt has said. The problem, he began to believe, was that this view was "remarkably unconscious of the people who had been kicked out of the country and were suffering in refugee camps to make this fantasy possible."
Career: King's College, Cambridge, England, fellow, 1972-78; University of California at Berkeley, assistant professor, 1978-80; St. Anne's College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, fellow, 1980-87; New York University, New York, NY, professor of history, 1987--, director of Remarque Institute, 1995--.
Awards: American Council of Learned Societies, fellow, 1980; British Academy Award for Research, 1984; Nuffield Foundation fellow, 1986; Guggenheim fellow, 1989; Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction finalist, 2006, for Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945. (less)
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Europa, der so genannte alte Kontinent, hat sich in den letzten sechs Jahrzehnten so rasant verändert wie kaum eine andere Region der Erde. Dem Weltkrieg folgte der Kalte Krieg, was für die Hälfte der Europäer vierzig Jahre diktatorischer Herrschaft bedeutete. Die Revolutionen von 1989 überwanden die Teilung, setzten fast überall die Demokratie durch, und schufen ...
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ISBN 978-0-8147-4356-0
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ISBN 978-0-7181-9141-2
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A startling diagnosis of how modern Western societies have failed and how they can be reformed.Something has gone amiss in public affairs over the past thirty years In the West we have forgotten how to think ethically about communal life When we consider a policy we only consider its efficiency or profitability...
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Die Krise der Banken hat die Risiken eines entfesselten Marktes deutlich genug gezeigt. In seiner letzten gro en Rede an der New York University warnte Tony Judt davor, Ideale wie Gerechtigkeit und Chancengleichheit der sogenannten Logik des Marktes zu opfern. Aus dieser Rede entstand sein letztes Buch. Eingebettet in den historischen Kontext, verteidigt er das ...
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ISBN 978-84-306-0817-1
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x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;B La autobiografía del intelectual de los intelectuales.x{0026}lt;/B x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P Cada capítulo evoca un recuerdo del pasado a través del filtro de la prodigiosa mente de Judt. Durante sus últimos meses de vida, escribir estas pequeñas piezas le permitió en cierto modo escapar de su enfermedad degenerativa, una prisión que se iba estrechando, y ...
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ISBN 978-1-59420-289-6
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" It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor ...
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La reconstruction, le déplacement forcé de populations, la mémoire de l'Holocauste et du communisme, la guerre froide ont marqué l'Europe de l'après-guerre. L'historien décrit les évolutions politiques, économiques, sociales et culturelles, à l'échelle du continent ou du pays, dans l'Europe de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle.
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Des marxistes français à l'économie de la mondialisation, de Primo Levi à Albert Camus, de la Grande-Bretagne à Israël, les essais réunis ici couvrent un éventail remarquable de sujets et un large espace géographique. Deux préoccupations dominantes sous-tendent le recueil: le rôle des idées et la responsabilité des intellectuels, et la place de l'histoire récente ...
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ISBN 978-0-09-954203-2
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Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far as the borders of Russia ...
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ISBN 978-1-84614-359-5
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'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith. Something has gone profoundly amiss in our public affairs over the past thirty years. In the West, we are wealthy and secure enough to allow ourselves to drift very far off course before anything has to be ...
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ISBN 978-0-14-311505-2
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A distinguished historian and political intellectual shares a cautionary evaluation of profound differences between twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture as a result of globalization, citing sobering compromises to intellectual thought and social activism that the author believes have rendered the modern world more vulnerable to recurrences of past tragedies.
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ISBN 978-0-09-953233-0
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As Tony Judt argues persuasively in Reappraisals, we have entered an age of forgetting. Today's world is so utterly unlike the world of just twenty years ago that we have set aside our immediate past even before we could make sense of it. We literally don't know where we came from, and the results of ...
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El sentido de la Historia para construir el futuro.Tony Judt afirma que hemos entrado en una época de olvido . Hoy, el mundo es tan radicalmente distinto del de hace tan sólo veinte años, que hemos dejado de lado nuestro pasado inmediato incluso antes de haber podido entenderlo. No sabemos, literalmente, de dónde venimos, y ...
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ISBN 978-0-226-41419-5
EAN 9780226414195
Using the lives of the three outstanding French intellectuals of the 20th century, renowned historian Tony Judt offers a unique look at how intellectuals can ignore political pressures and demonstrate a heroic commitment to personal integrity and moral responsibility unfettered by the difficult political exigencies of their time.Leon Blum, Albert Camus, and Raymond Aron might ...
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ISBN 978-0-14-303775-0
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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 ...
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ISBN 978-0-434-00749-3
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Tracing the story of post-war Europe and its changing role in the world, Judt's magnificent history of the continent of our times investigates the political, social and cultural history of Europe from the wreckage of post-war Europe to the expansion of the EU into the former Soviet empire. Judt's stress is on the continent as ...
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