{{short description|American journalist}} '''Liviu Floda''' (born '''Adolf Leibovici''';<ref name="Wertsman">{{Cite book |last=Wertsman |first=Vladimir |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zVP_EdPwWIC&pg=PA118|title=Salute to Romanian Jews in America and Canada, 1850–2010: history, achievements and biographies |year=2010 |publisher=Xlibris |isbn=978-1-4535-1279-1 |location=[United States] |oclc=664806063|pages=118–119}}</ref> August 16, 1913 – June 3, 1997) was a Romanian-American journalist and commentator.
==Biography== Floda was born on August 16, 1913, in Brăila, Romania,<ref name=hoorferl/> in a Jewish family.<ref name="Wertsman"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Oltean |first=Anca |date=2016 |title=The History of the Jews from Romania and Hungary (1945–1953) in the Romanian and Hungarian Historical Writing |url=https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3288490 |journal=SSRN Electronic Journal |doi=10.2139/ssrn.3288490 |page=35|url-access=subscription |doi-access=free }}</ref> In 1932 he began his career in Bucharest by writing for such newspapers as ''Adevărul'', ''{{ill|Dimineața|ro|Dimineața (Adevěrul de dimineața)}}'', ''Semnalul'', and ''Jurnal''. In 1936 he obtained a master's degree from the University of Bucharest and in 1946 both a doctorate in economics and in political science from the same institution.<ref name="Wertsman"/><ref name=hoorferl/> From 1940 to 1944, he was assistant principal at the Cultura B lyceum in Bucharest, and from 1947 to 1948 he was a lecturer at both the Commercial Academy and at the college of the Museum of Science. In March of the same year, he was laid off as a teacher by the Communist authorities after their rise to power in Romania. After World War II, he worked for ''Jurnalul de dimineață'' and ''Libertatea''.<ref name="Wertsman"/> He could not work as a journalist for some time, so he focused his skills onto co-authorship (with Ștefan Tita) of a play called ''Flacăra vie'' ("The Living Flame"), which ran from 1957 to 1958.<ref name=hoorferl>{{cite web|url=http://hoorferl.stanford.edu/bio.php?id=5|title=Liviu Floda|access-date=September 24, 2022|website=archive.ph|publisher= Hoover Institution Library and Archives|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130809193600/http://hoorferl.stanford.edu/bio.php?id=5|archive-date=2013-08-09}}</ref>
In 1964, he emigrated to New York City, where he was hired by Radio Free Europe and worked under the pseudonym ''Andrei Brânduș''. At RFE, he worked with Romanian exiles such as Preda Bunescu, {{ill|George Ciorănescu|ro}}, Mircea Carp, Neculai Munteanu, Emil Georgescu, Emil Hurezeanu, Victor Eskenasy, {{ill|Șerban Orescu|ro}}, {{ill|Ioana Măgură Bernard|ro}}, Raluca Petrulian, {{ill|Max Bănuș|ro}}, Justin Liuba, Constantin Alexandroaie, Silvia Cinca, and Iacob Popper.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.contributors.ro/radio-europa-libera-securitatea-si-jandarmii-culturali/comment-page-1/|title=Radio Europa Liberă, Securitatea și jandarmii culturali|language=ro|first=Vladimir|last=Tismăneanu|author-link=Vladimir Tismăneanu|website=www.contributors.ro|date=July 15, 2014|access-date=September 24, 2022}}</ref> Among the people he interviewed for RFE were Eugène Ionesco, George Emil Palade, Jean Negulesco, Isamu Noguchi, Andrei Codrescu, Andrei Serban, Radu Lupu, and Viorica Cortez.<ref name="NYT">{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/15/classified/paid-notice-deaths-floda-liviu.html|title=Obituary|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 15, 1997|access-date=September 24, 2022}}</ref>
In 1972, Floda retired from Radio Free Europe, but continued working as a freelance journalist. When RFE got shut down in 1993, he continued working for the Voice of America,<ref name=hoorferl/> and then left to assemble his archives for the Hoover Institution.<ref name="NYT"/> Floda also worked for the Israeli newspapers ''Viața Noastră'' and ''Facla'', and for ''MicroMagazin'' and ''Mele'' in North America. He was a member of the American Newspaper Guild, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American-Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences before he died on June 3, 1997.<ref name="Wertsman"/><ref name=hoorferl/>
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==External links== * {{cite web|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf709nb1tv/entire_text/|title=Preliminary Inventory of the Liviu Floda papers|publisher= Hoover Institution Library and Archives|website=oac.cdlib.org|access-date=September 24, 2022}}
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