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Friday the 6th of August, after a battle of two years against motor neuron disease ,Tony Judt, celebrated historian and intellectual extraordinaire, passed away. The more frequent readers of Gibburt will know that I greatly admire mr. Judt and as such I could not let his passing go without a small token of my appreciation for his work.

Although Tony Judt was mostly famous for his open stance against the Israeli policies in dealing with their Palestinian country members, I will remember him most for his lifework: Postwar, a history of Europe since 1945. Both insightful and well informed I have yet to come across a work that explains the European condition so well as Postwar does. His last two books Reappraisals and – what is already being called his testament – Ill fares the land are waiting on my nightstand for me.

Tony, the world is less without your piercing mind in it.

For more information on his passing please see here. And for more articles on Gibburt on Tony Judt please refer here or here.

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