Uniunea Elenă din România (UER) și publicațiile sale (1991–2021)
The Hellenic Union of Romania and its Publications (1991–2021)

Summary/Abstract: The Hellenic Union from Romania (Uniunea Elenă din România, UER), founded on 28 December 1989, is one of the 18 organizations of the national minorities represented in the Chamber of Deputies in the Parliament of Romania. This organization, including both Romanian citizens of Greek origins and Philo-Hellenic Romanians, comprises today 24 territorial communities unfolding vivid activities all over the country, promoting Neo-Greek mother tongue, Orthodoxy, Hellenic culture, civilization, customs and traditions. During its three decades of existence, the Hellenic Union from Romania has morally and, in most of the cases, financially supported (from the budget assigned to the Greek national minority by the Romanian state) an intensive activity of publishing and journalism, developed on several „fronts”. Our bibliographical and critical article is dedicated to the most important and very active Greek periodicals and publishing houses connected with and reflecting the cultural policy of the Hellenic Union from Romania: 1. the bilingual Greek-Romanian magazine „Ελπίδα/Speranța” („Hope”) (1993/1997–2004), later „Ελπίς/Speranța” (2004–2021); 2. Editura Omonia (Omonia Publishing House), founded by director general Elena Lazăr in 1991, with an impressive portfolio of hundreds of belletristic, cultural and historical translations published so far; 3. UER Press, the very publishing house of the Hellenic Union from Romania, founded in 2009; 4. the specialized journal „Studii bizantine” (Byzantine Studies), edited between 2010–2018 by Societatea Culturală Bizantină (Byzantine Cultural Society) in collaboration with the Hellenic Union from Romania and published by UER Press.

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