The article overviews the biography of Béla Székely (1892-1955) journalist and psychologist. It summarizes three periods of his life activities. 1. Between 1918 and 1926 he was a journalist and Zionist activist in Transylvania, founder of the weekly Új Kelet, author of A Country in Travail, a travel report of his visit in Palestine. 2. Between 1926 and1938 he was a leftist journalist, psychologist, a friend of the poet Attila József, editor of the psychological journal Emberismeret. 3. Between 1938 and 1955 he was immigrant in Argentina, a well-known psychologist in Latin America, and supported the Hungarian Jewry after the Holocaust.
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