The public cultural magazine of the Hungarians in Romania: the 75th anniversary of Művelődés!

Part 1

Abstract

This paper is a chapter of a research paper entitled The Hungarian Public Library Sector in Romania after 1945, based on the Hungarian library journals in Romania. The exploration of the past of the Hungarian library press in Romania has been not without difficulties, since the bibliographical references in the Kuszálik bibliography of press history, in Művelődés, in the Hungarian Literary Encyclopaedia of Romania, in Magyar Könyvszemle (Hungarian Book Review) and other sources show a discrepancy of several years in the starting date and frequency of publication of the individual journals. The collection work was made more difficult by the fact that none of the journals published after 1948 could withstand the vicissitudes of time and could not ensure continuous publication for decades, as the Magyar Könyvszemle (1876-) or the Könyvtári Figyelő (1955-) could. Művelődés tried to fill this gap, trying to promote the Hungarian library sector in Romania, both in its columns and in its supplements.

The study is divided into two parts: the first part is the history of Művelődés, the second part is the history of the Könyvtár (Library) and the Könyvesház (Bookhouse).