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[From EH.News.] 
 
In Memoriam. Adam Klug 
 
Adam Klug was a brilliant young Israeli economic historian who recently 
passed away well before his prime. We at Rutgers were fortunate to have him 
with us for four years in the early 1990s. (He was a visitor in the 
International Finance Section at Princeton for two years and a visiting 
professor at Rutgers for two years). Adam's field of interest was financial 
history and he published several important articles on German Reparations 
and Sovereign Debt default in the 1930s, as well as an article on the Suez 
crisis of 1956. He collaborated with Michael Bordo on a project on the 
Sterling crisis of 1967 and Eugene White on leading indicators of the Great 
Depression in the US, with Doug Irwin on the political economy of Tariffs, 
and with others. These papers will be published in the future. What was so 
special about Adam was his intellectual curiosity, and his broad range of 
expertise. He kept coming up with the most interesting and arcane data and 
ingenious hypotheses on important issues. His signature in his years in New 
Jersey was a heavy green tweed sport jacket, white (sort of) shirt and 
nondescript tie, which he wore regardless of the season, and an old leather 
briefcase which was always overflowing with a good fifty pounds of tomes 
from the Princeton Library. We will miss him.  
 
Michael Bordo  
Hugh Rockoff  
Eugene White 
 
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