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'''Henri "Ricu"<ref name="interview">{{cite web|url=http://net7.com/rjh/?page_id=661 |title=Henry Wald – 80 | Romanian Jewish Heritage |publisher=Net7.com |date=1920-10-31 |accessdate=2014-01-17}}</ref> Wald''' (October 31, 1920<ref name="interview"/> – 2002; name also spelled '''Henry Wald'''<ref name="interview"/>) was a Romanian [[professor]], [[philosopher]], [[logic]]ian, and [[essayist]].<ref name = "yivo">{{cite web|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Wald_Henri |title=YIVO |publisher=Yivoencyclopedia.org |date= |accessdate=2014-01-17}}</ref> |
'''Henri "Ricu"<ref name="interview">{{cite web|url=http://net7.com/rjh/?page_id=661 |title=Henry Wald – 80 | Romanian Jewish Heritage |publisher=Net7.com |date=1920-10-31 |accessdate=2014-01-17 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118115511/http://net7.com/rjh/?page_id=661 |archivedate=2014-01-18 |df= }}</ref> Wald''' (October 31, 1920<ref name="interview"/> – 2002; name also spelled '''Henry Wald'''<ref name="interview"/>) was a Romanian [[professor]], [[philosopher]], [[logic]]ian, and [[essayist]].<ref name = "yivo">{{cite web|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Wald_Henri |title=YIVO |publisher=Yivoencyclopedia.org |date= |accessdate=2014-01-17}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Revision as of 20:09, 31 March 2017
Henri "Ricu"[1] Wald (October 31, 1920[1] – 2002; name also spelled Henry Wald[1]) was a Romanian professor, philosopher, logician, and essayist.[2]
Early life
Wald was born to a family of small merchants in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.[2] Wald first became interested in philosophy at age sixteen, during a lecture given by one of his teachers.[1] He was forced to leave high school in 1940 due to discriminatory anti-Jewish laws.[2] Thus, Wald studied at a private college for Jewish students.[2]
Career
During World War II, Wald served in a forced labor detachment due to him being Jewish.[2] In terms of his political views, Wald was a Communist and "a radical antifascist".[2] Wald began publishing in September 1944 in the newspaper Tribuna poporului (The People’s Tribune).[2] In addition, he also contributed to several additional leftist periodicals and to some cultural publications as well.[2] Wald graduated from the faculty of philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1946, after writing a dissertation called “The Petty Bourgeois Mentality.”[1][2] Wald became a professor of philosophy in Bucharest in 1948, a job which he occupied until 1962 (when he was fired due to his opposition to the official "nationalist-communism" stance of the then-Romanian government).[2] Wald worked in several other educational institutions as well until his retirement in 1983.[2] Due to his political commitments, Wald also worked in the propaganda department for the Communist Romanian regime in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[2] Later on in his life, Wald became significantly closer to Judaism, which he thought was a "matrix of humanist thinking".[2] Late in his life, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company’s Center for Oral History (C.O.H.) conducted an interview with Wald where he talked about and discussed his life story.[1] Wald died in 2002, at the age of 80.[2][1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Henry Wald – 80 | Romanian Jewish Heritage". Net7.com. 1920-10-31. Archived from the original on 2014-01-18. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "YIVO". Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 2014-01-17.