Tony Judt Quotes


I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was young, like most people, but I became less actively politically engaged in the middle of my life.


Citations

Judt, Tony, and Timothy Snyder. Thinking the Twentieth Century. Penguin Press, 2012.

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Tony Judt
Tony Judt
  • Born: January 2, 1948
  • Died: August 6, 2010
  • Nationality: English, American
  • Profession: Historian; Erich Maria Remarque Professor In European Studies At New York University

Tony Robert Judt FBA was an English-American 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 Erich Maria Remarque Institute. He was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. 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.