Tony judt biography
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Tony Judt ()
Founder and director of Remarque Institute; scholar of modern Europe
Tony Judt died on August 6, , after a long and courageous struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (“Lou Gehrig’s Disease”). He held the Erich Maria Remarque chair in European studies at New York University, where he also founded and directed the Remarque Institute.
Born in East London in , he was trained at King’s College, Cambridge, and studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He taught at Cambridge as well as at Berkeley and Emory before joining NYU in , where he served as a main exemplar and protagonist of its newly deepened commitment to serious scholarship and graduate education. His sympathetic and committed teaching at every level earned him the admiration and devotion of many students. At his death he was increasingly widely known for his historical work, for his intervention in public debates over politics and culture, and for the series of painfully honest and insightful memoirs of his own life and what it was like to live with his disease, published in the New York Review of Books (and which will be issued as a separate volume). He received the Orwell prize in
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Tony Judt
English historian (–)
Tony Robert JudtFBA (JUT; 2 January – 6 August )[1] was an English historian, essayist and university professor who specialised in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University and director of NYU's Remarque Institute. He was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. In Judt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Biography
[edit]Judt was born on 2 January in London, England, to secular Jewish parents,[1] Isaac Joseph ("Joe") Judt and Stella S Judt. His mother's parents had emigrated from Russia and Romania, and his father was born in Belgium and had immigrated as a boy to Ireland and then subsequently to England. Judt's parents lived in North London, but due to the closure of the local hospitals in response to an outbreak of infant dysentery, Judt was born in a Salvation Army maternity unit in Bethnal Green, in the East End of London.[2] When he was a small boy, the family moved from Tottenham to a flat above his mother's business in Putney, South London. When Judt was nine years of age, following the birth of his sister,