Between Israel and Social Democracy: Tony Judt’s.
The Remarque Institute presents The Tony Judt Memorial Lecture with David Cole. Tony Judt (1948-2010) was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at NYU and the founding director of the Remarque Institute at NYU. One of the great historians of Europe in his generation, his many books include Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945.He wrote frequently for The New York Review of.Tony Robert Judt was a historian, essayist and public intellectual. He established the Remarque Institute at New York University and served as its first director. He taught at NYU from 1987 until his death from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2010.For two decades, Tony Judt was a fixture in the leading journals of opinion, an inescapable presence in Anglo-American intellectual life. But the British historian’s October 2009 lecture at New York University came as a shock. Judt rolled on stage in a wheelchair, with a breathing device strapped to his face.
Judt's current interest is a new history of Europe since the war, but his views on the present condition of Europe may be discerned in a small but brilliant book entitled A Grand Illusion: An Essay on Europe. He is presently Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, where he is the director of the Remarque Institute.The Remarque Institute was established at New York University in 1995 under the direction of Tony Judt. Its name comes from the writer Erich Maria Remarque, whose widow Paulette Goddard made a generous donation to the University. Relations between Europe and North America are at a crossroads.
Tony Judt was educated at King's College, Cambridge, and the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and taught at Cambridge, Oxford and Berkeley. He was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University, as well as the founder and director of the Remarque Institute, dedicated to creating an ongoing conversation between Europe and America.
