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Presentation of a new digital project of the Sefer Center, dedicated to the exploration and preservation of Jewish cultural heritage in the CIS and Baltic States. The aim of the Project called SFIRA is to develop an open-access database for storage and presentation of the fieldwork materials on Jewish history, traditional culture and material heritage in Eastern Europe. The database will include three main types of data: annotated audio- and video-interviews recorded with the local Jews in former Jewish Shtetls, full searchable catalogs of Jewish cemeteries, and archival documents on Jewish History in Eastern Europe including official and personal records, photos, memoirs and other items discovered in the local government and private archives. By the moment a prototype of the database has been created and is available for beta-testing. In my presentation, he is going to make a general overview of the database, demonstrating its interface, contents and some special features. The presentation is intended for everybody interested in culture and History Eastern European Jewry.