Lion-queue-coupée: l’écart symbolique chez Chrétien de Troyes (Geneva, 1972);
“Making It (New) in the Middle Ages: Towards a Problematics of Alterity,” Diacritics 4 (1974), 2-11

Peter Haidu, Professor of French

Lion-queue-coupée: l’écart symbolique chez Chrétien de Troyes (Geneva, 1972);
“Making It (New) in the Middle Ages: Towards a Problematics of Alterity,” Diacritics 4 (1974), 2-11

“Peter first arrived in this country in New York, after a difficult escape from Nazi-occupied France with his mother, Henia Hajdu. His father, Paul Hajdu, died as a prisoner of war, having enlisted in the French army. After high school in California and finishing his Bachelor's at the University of Chicago and the City College of New York Peter made his home in New York as a poet, living among dancers and artists downtown, and was drafted into the Korean War, during which he served as a reporter based in Germany. At Columbia, as a graduate student, he met his second wife, Marilene Edrei, with whom he had two children; later in life he became a grandfather to Isadora Haidu Moon and Tessa Sohn Haidu. His last years were devoted to the preparation of two manuscripts, one of which argues questions of (Jewish) identity through the texts of Chretien de Troyes; many readers have also noted his work on the representability of the Shoah.”

1947-1984