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From 2012 to 2019 Sefer carried out over twenty field-schools and expeditions on Jewish epigraphy and ethnography in Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia (the full list is available on our website). For the previous several years our field research team explored and cataloged 25 Jewish cemeteries, including four of them located in Belarus: Zheludok (Grodno Province), Lepel, Hlybokaye, Beshankovichy (Vitebsk Province). Some of the collected data have been published by the Sefer Center in a special series of volumes «A Jewish Shtetl in Contemporary Cultural Memory». The complete digital catalogs of several cemeteries are also available online in the open-access database SFIRA recently developed by Sefer. In my presentation I would like to share Sefer’s experience in exploring and cataloging Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe and to present the main results and materials of our field research, published in the previous several years.