Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish. Tony Judt collectivedebtfeel Change image and share on social
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. Tony Judt basebookexotic Change image and share on social
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? Tony Judt amendbegingeneration Change image and share on social
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them. Tony Judt ideainstitutionleave share on social
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. Tony Judt citizenhistorian Change image and share on social
It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel. Tony Judt commentatorcontroversialistirritate Change image and share on social
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. Tony Judt emoteillnessmake Change image and share on social
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way. Tony Judt balancedeathjudgment share on social
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation. Tony Judt clearcompensationcripple Change image and share on social
Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me. Tony Judt antibackeurope Change image and share on social
