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Sefer Field Research Archive (SFIRA) is an open access database of field research materials on Jewish oral history, ethnography and funerary epigraphy collected in Russia and East European countries. The database developed by the Sefer Center is suitable for storage and processing of three types of data: audio and video recordings of ethnographic interviews with transcripts; full catalogs of Jewish cemeteries; scanned and annotated historical documents, photos, memoirs and other archival materials. There are more than 250 interviews, 12 cemetery catalogs, and over 120 archival items available on the SFIRA website at the moment. During the presentation a detailed overview of the database will be provided demonstrating its structure, different types of contents, indexing system and main features of the web interface.