Stomach: the memory of a Jewish town / Ed. by I. Kopchenov, Moscow, 2013, 328 p.; Lost Neighborhood: Jews in the cultural memory of Latgale residents. Materials of the expeditions of 2011-2012 / Ed. by S. Amosov M., 2013. - 382 p.; Pages of history and culture of the Jews of Georgia (in the footsteps of the expedition of 2013) / Ed. by M. Chlenov M., 2014. - 136 p.; Jews on the map of Lithuania: Go ahead. Problems of preserving the Jewish heritage and historical memory / Ed. by I. Kopchenov, Moscow, 2015, 366 p. The above collections are publications of materials and analytical articles collected and written by participants of expeditions organized by the Sefer Center for Jewish Scholars and Teachers in Higher Education Institutions. The Sefer Center, in collaboration with various partners, has been organizing field schools on Jewish ethnography and epigraphy for undergraduates, postgraduates, and young researchers since 2003. The participants of the expeditions conducted research in Belarus, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania-both in places where communal Jewish life still exists in one form or another, and in regions where only empty synagogues, cemeteries and memories of Jews who once lived there can be found. former neighbors. The collection "Stomach: The Memory of a Jewish Shtetl" is dedicated to various aspects of the life of the Jewish community in the Western Belarusian shtetl. It is worth noting that this book was not only the first in a series of publications of materials from field schools, but also the first attempt in Russian-language scientific literature to address the topic of the Jewish shtetl as a special cultural phenomenon on the example of a single town, collecting and analyzing diverse sources-ethnographic, ar- page 397khivnye, memoir and epigraphic works. Like many other Jewish towns, the Stomach was wiped off the map of Eastern Europe in this capacity: before the war, the Jewish population made up 70 percent o ... Read more