Miklos Kallos

I was in the editorial office where the ‘Uj Ut’ was edited. [Uj Ut (New Way) was a Hungarian weekly published by the Jewish Democratic League between 1949-1953.] For sure it was taken in 1952.

I was the editor-in-chief. It was a weekly editorial. It ceased publication in 1953, like all the other establishments of the minorities.

In 1948, I registered at the Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca. I studied Psychology for one year, after which I transferred myself to the Faculty of Philosophy.

I graduated in 1952. Concurrently, I was a student and a teacher: in the 2nd year, I became a tutor at the Philosophy Department. In the year of my graduation, I was already an assistant.

Then I went up the entire academic ladder. For a while, I was both the head of the Philosophy Department and the dean of the Faculty of Letters at the Bolyai University.

In 1959, the two universities were united and the result was the Babes-Bolyai University.

In 1959, he, Nicolae Ceausescu was sent - as the party's bully - to assure the unification of the Romanian and the Hungarian universities. It was no easy job.

He presided over the commission which came and achieved the unification. There was a whole week of endless meetings: in the morning or in the afternoon; with the faculties or with the groups of students; with students or without students; plenary or open only to the teaching body etc.

Ceausescu was accompanied by the Minister of Education, logician and Academy member Joja. But the minister didn't say one word. It was Ceausescu who did the work, gave the orders and pulled the strings.

Since I had been the head of the Philosophy Department at the Bolyai University, I became, after the unification, the head of the Philosophy Department of the new Babes-Bolyai University.

They also appointed me assistant dean at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, an office which I kept till the late 1970s. In those days, the dean was Prof. Lascu.

Then I worked with Stefan Pascu and, later, with Camil Muresanu. I was a head of department until 1980.