Deva Jewish Community Collection

Collection

Scope and content:: This collection is very small and certainly represents only a tiny remnant of the records of the Deva Jewish community. There is no indication as to why these documents survived and others did not nor whether there may be another deposit of community paperwork (more likely it seems material was destroyed or thrown away). The synagogue was restored in 2018-2019 but the president at the time was unable to say whether additional archival material was found in the course of the restoration. Nevertheless, the collection contains several unique items of interest. There is a notebook with an alphabetic list of Jews “evacuated” from villages during World War II (“evacuated” was the euphemism used for the law requiring the compulsory resettlement of rural Jews in towns) (Box1, folder 1), a unique book of prints published in Cluj in 1947 by D Izareli and several registers from the Deva Jewish school during the war-time period. Particularly unique is a map, damaged by water, depicting Jewish community institutes in the Hunedoara district in 1956 (oversized box, OS-1).

Archival history:: The documents within this collection were stored in the administrative offices of the Deva Jewish community. They were organised and repackaged in 2018.

Subject terms:: Education; Education--Schools and universities; Jewish community; Resettlement of Jews

Finding aids:: The complete finding aid is available on the project website of the Leo Baeck Institute.