Posts Tagged ‘Tony Judt’

October 25th, 2011

Tony Judt on Religion in America

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In addition to an excerpt from the introduction to Denis Lacorne’s Religion in America, as well as Joseph Blankholm’s response to Lacorne’s recent presentation of the book at Columbia University, you can also read the book’s foreword by the late Tony Judt, available from Columbia University Press.

January 8th, 2010

The history of Tony Judt

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In a moving portrait of the eminent historian, Evan R. Goldstein traces the trajectory of Tony Judt’s career from his adolescent Zionism to the more recent controversies surrounding his advocacy of a bi-national state in Israel-Palestine and forthright criticism of Israeli policy—and, of course, the decades of original and invaluable political and intellectual history in between.