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Diarna: Digitally Mapping Mizrahi Heritage
Publication Date: January 2009
Publisher(s): Association for Jewish Studies; Association for Jewish Studies
Author(s): Frances Malino; Jason Guberman-Pfeffer; Frances Malino; Jason Guberman-Pfeffer
Series: AJS Perspectives: The Newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies, Spring 2009, pp.42-44.
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Education (Information services and sources)
Social conditions (History)
Keywords: Mizrahi Jews; Internet; History; Technology
Type: Report
Abstract:
The authors discuss Diarna ("our home" in Judeo-Arabic), a new project in which scholars, social entrepreneurs, Google Earth developers and Middle Eastern researchers are collaborating to gather photographs and other multimedia materials from physical locations of former Mizrahi Jewish life, and map it all on Google Earth. The project can help to document traces of Jewish life before they vanish, the authors explain, in addition to being a valuable pedagogical tool.