Editing Deva, Romania (section)

===Jewish history===
[[File:RO HD Sinagoga din Deva.jpg|thumb|Deva synagogue]]
Jews first settled in the town in the 1830s, organizing a community in 1848. Rabbi Moshe Herzog (1893-1898) delivered patriotic sermons in Hungarian. The synagogue was rebuilt in 1925. In 1923, the strictly [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]] established their own congregation under Hayyim Yehuda Ehrenreich, a rabbinical scholar whose periodical ''Otzar ha-Hayyim'' became renowned in Jewish academic circles. In 1927, he set up a press that printed classical Hebrew works.<ref name="spector"/>

Zionist organizations were especially active in the mid-1920s. In 1930, there were 914 Jews, or 8.7% of the total. On 5 December 1940, during the [[National Legionary State]], Jewish merchants were forced to give up their shops to members of the ruling [[Iron Guard]]. In June 1941, when [[Operation Barbarossa|Romania entered World War II]], 695 Jewish refugees from surrounding villages were brought to Deva. In the war's aftermath, many remained there. There were 1190 Jews in 1947; the majority emigrated to Israel after 1948.<ref name="spector">Shmuel Spector, Geoffrey Wigoder (eds.), ''The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust: A—J'', p. 308. [[New York University Press]], 2001, {{ISBN|0-8147-9376-2}}</ref>