Īs a high school and university student he was a left-wing Zionist, and worked summers on kibbutzim.

He obtained a BA degree in history in 1969 and after spending a year at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris completed a PhD in 1972. At Cambridge, Judt became close friends with Martyn Poliakoff, who later became well known as a chemist and star of The Periodic Table of Videos (Judt watched his videos and would regularly write to him about them). He was the first member of his family to finish secondary school and to go to university. Judt won a place at Emanuel School in Wandsworth, and following his education at Emanuel, he went on to study as a scholarship student at King's College, Cambridge. The family's main language was English, although Judt often spoke French to his father and his father's family. When Judt was nine years of age, following the birth of his sister, the family moved to a house in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. 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

Cabana memoriei by Tony Judt