Tony Judt Is Dead At 62 2.89K Jeff Neumann 08/07/10 12:18PM Filed to: and now he's dead and now he's dead tony judt New York New York Review Of Books Postwar Israel historians History Europe Author and intellectual Tony Judt died yesterday in New York at 62, after a battle with ALS. His best known book, "Postwar," about Europe after WW2 was called "remarkable" by The New Yorker. Read his final essays, starting here.