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Saying that this amazing book "presents Judt's view on the history of the 20th century" is both vague and inadequate, I think it mainly engages with two broad topics, fused together: 1) discussing the successive transformations of ideas in the field of political and social ideologies during the 20th century, and therefore in how "intellectuals" and public figures like Koestler, Orwell, Sartre and Judt himself have influenced public debate, and 2) an autobiography of Tony Judt himself, his background and his life as a student, historian and public man. Since he comes from a family where many people were killed during the Holocaust (his parents managed to escape to England before the war) and because of his early episode of Zionism and disillusions with some of it, the book also chronicles important aspects of the development of Zionism across the past century. Strausszek (talk) 18:32, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
