Tony Judt

Tony Robert Judt (born January 2, 1948 in London ; died on August 6, 2010 in New York ) was a British - American historian who was particularly concerned with 20th century European history. From 1995 he was director of the Remarque Institute he founded at New York University . Judt became known to a wider public through his book The History of Europe from 1945 to the Present (2005). In 1996 Judt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 a Fellow of the British Academy .

Career

Judt studied at the University of Cambridge and at the École normal supérieure (ENS) in Paris . He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in England in 1969 and a Ph.D. in 1972. in history . In 1966 he worked in a kibbutz in Machanajim and during the Six Day War in 1967 as a driver and translator for the Israeli army . His prozionist stance until then was shaken more and more. Judt emerged in 2003 with a plea for a binational Israeli-Palestinian state ( one -state solution ) for the territory of Palestine . His changed attitude on this issue meant that a lecture he gave was canceled under pressure from the Anti-Defamation League and one had to request room protection for him elsewhere.

Judt had a pan-European perspective and saw Europe as belonging together. He criticized parts of the '68 because, in his opinion, they got bogged down in theories and thus left a narrowed understanding. He also turned against former companions who now supported the Bush administration and who, in his view, have become "left hawks" (English: " liberal hawks ") and "useful idiots". Judt also viewed the recent development of Europe critically: the West had forgotten a common moral language with which solidarity could be justified. During the last two years of his life he suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis .

In 2006 Judt was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book , in 2007 the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize and the Hannah Arendt Prize (as "a personality who stands out in the public debate about Europe and the West ... committed ”) excellent. The Presidium of the Bremen Jewish Community expressed irritation about the awarding of the prize to Tony Judt, whom they accused of anti-Zionist propaganda, which the jury concealed in its reasoning. The community also complained that the award ceremony took place on a Friday evening and the subsequent discussion event on a Saturday morning. This would exclude Jews who want to observe the Shabbat from participating.

Works

• Marxism and the French Left: Studies on Labor and Politics in France 1830–1982 . Clarendon, Oxford 1990, ISBN 0-19-821578-9 .
• A grand illusion? An Essay on Europe . Douglas & McIntyre, 1996, ISBN 0-8090-5093-5 .
  • Great illusion of Europe. Challenges and dangers of an idea. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-446-18755-3 .
• The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century . University of Chicago Press, 1998, ISBN 0-226-41418-3 .
• Socialism in Provence 1871-1914. A Study in the Origins of the Modern French Left . Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-521-22172-2 .
• Identity Politics in a Multilingual Age . Palgrave, New York 2004, ISBN 1-4039-6393-2 .
• Postwar. A History of Europe Since 1945 . Penguin, New York 2005, ISBN 1-59420-065-3 .
  • The history of Europe from 1945 to the present. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-446-20777-5 .
• Reappraisals. Reflections on the Forgotten 20th Century . Penguin, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59420-136-3 .
  • The forgotten 20th century. The return of the political intellectual. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-446-23509-0 .
• Ill Fares the Land . Penguin, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-59420-276-6 .
  • The country is doing badly. A treatise on our dissatisfaction. Hanser, Munich / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23651-6 .
• The Memory Chalet. Penguin, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-59420-289-6 .
  • The chalet of memories. Translated from English by Matthias Fienbork. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-23815-2 .
• With Timothy Snyder : Thinking the Twentieth Century. Penguin, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-59420-323-7 .
  • Thinking about the 20th century. Hanser, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24139-8 .
• When the facts change . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-002508-1 .

Awards

• 2006: Bruno Kreisky Prize for the political book (main prize) for the book History of Europe from 1945 to the Present

Web links

• Literature by and about Tony Judt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Tony Judt  in the German Digital Library

Contributions

• Article by Tony Judt on The New York Review of Books
• Tony Judt on the Hanser Verlag website
• What is alive and what is dead about social democracy? , translated lecture by Judt at New York University
• Tanks with a Star of David , article by Judt on Friday , July 21, 2006

Interviews

• USA and Europe - Battle of the Models , Interview by Andrian Kreye in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 7, 2005
• Historian Tony Judt: "What the USA is doing is catastrophic for the world" , interview with Uwe Schmitt in der Welt , September 12, 2006
• USA: “America no longer offers the world an alternative” , interview by Thomas Assheuer in Die Zeit , November 4, 2006
• “Israel seems to me like a small colony in America” , interview by Thomas Seifert in the press , June 13, 2007
• The Iraq war is not the solution, but the problem , Interview by Thorsten Stegemann in Telepolis , September 25, 2007
• "We need an ethical worldview" , interview by Jörg Lau in der Zeit , August 12, 2010

Reviews and obituaries

• Eric Hobsbawm : After the Cold War: Eric Hobsbawm remembers Tony Judt ( Memento dated May 1, 2012 on WebCite ) . In: London Review of Books , April 26, 2012.
• Lorenz Jäger : Obituary (FAZ)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jamie Doward: Historian Tony Judt dies aged 62 , The Guardian , August 7, 2010, accessed February 10, 2012.
2. ↑ Isolde Charim : The Historian of Europe: Tony Judt is dead , taz , August 10, 2010, accessed on February 10, 2012
3. ↑ Jan-Werner Müller: Truly pan-European - and polemical: On the death of the British historian Tony Judt , NZZ , August 10, 2010, accessed on February 10, 2012
4. ↑ Michael Freund: Tony Judt: “Saying what a good society is made of” , Der Standard , October 20, 2009, accessed February 10, 2012
5. ↑ Isolde Charim: Where was Israel to the core question , , The Standard , June 12, 2007 accessed on 10 February 2012 (Interview)
6. ↑ Tony Judt: The Problem of Evil in Post-War Europe: Speech on the occasion of the Hannah Arendt Award Ceremony 2007  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (The author's unauthorized translation by Ute Szczepanski on the Heinrich Böll Foundation's website ), accessed on February 10, 2012. On the controversy surrounding his criticism of Israel in 2007, which was offended by the Bremen Jewish community, and his reply, see Die Remembrance teach , Die Zeit , 2010  
7. ↑ Elvira Noa, Grigori Pantijelew: Open Letter 29 November, 2007
8. ↑ Jacques Schuster : Outrage over Arendt Prize for Tony Judt , Welt , November 30, 2007
9. ↑ Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book Prize Winners 1993-2018 , renner-institut.at, accessed December 1, 2019