![]() ![]() When he was a small boy, the family moved from Tottenham to a flat above his mother's business in Putney, South London. 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. 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 was born on 2 January 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom, to secular Jewish parents, Isaac Joseph ("Joe") Judt and Stella S Judt. 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. He was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. 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. ![]() Tony Robert Judt FBA ( / dʒ ʌ t/ JUT 2 January 1948 – 6 August 2010) was a British-American historian, essayist and university professor who specialized in European history. ![]() Historian Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University ![]()
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