While numerous Jewish people live in the modern Middle East and North Africa, the historical record pertaining to Jewish life in these areas is quickly dissipating. For this reason, collecting, preserving, and documenting the region's Jewish history is crucial. Diarna is a digital museum dedicated to this task through the "synthesis of digital mapping technology, traditional scholarship, and field research, as well as a trove of multimedia documentation." Diarna ensures that this history is not only preserved but accessible. Historians of Jewish culture and individuals with Jewish heritage will want to explore the extensive offerings of this "geo-museum," which can be done in one of three ways. On the page linked above, visitors can click "Discover" for curated exhibits covering topics such as the Jewish history of Azerbaijan and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt. Visitors can also click "Hear" for oral history interviews. Finally, visitors can click "Explore" for an extensive interactive map of key archaeological sites, which include descriptions, historical details, and galleries of related photos. Diarna is an initiative of the non-profit organization Digital Heritage Mapping.
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