Diarna.org (“Our Homes” in Judeo-Arabic) explores Middle Eastern Jewish life through the prism of physical location by digitizing individual sites and memories.
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“[I]n many cases, Diarna’s virtual records are all that stand between these centuries-old treasures & total oblivion.... [Diarna] has the power to change the very nature of how we understand the past”~Dara Horn, @SmithsonianMag
Join the race against time:
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Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life retweeted
27 Feb 2024
📜Learn about the Synagogues' History from @DiarnaProject :
archive.diarna.org/site/deta…
📰Updates regarding the Synagogues :
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Shocking photos from Khenchela, Algeria show a mummified arm strewn on a street, where children allegedly played with it. The remains are from the now-closed "mixed" (Jewish & Christian) cemetery Locals protest disrespecting the dead as violation of Islam.
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Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life retweeted
6 Nov 2023
Thanks to our documentation specialist Sam Miller for today's Fun Fact, and to David Yedidia for info about Urmia. You can learn more about the Kalimiyan Synagogue and the Iranian Jewish community at @DiarnaProject: archive.diarna.org/site/deta…
@HUCJIR
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Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life retweeted
30 Jan 2023
Whether by persecution or migration, too many once-thriving Jewish communities are gone. Hear about 2 geo-mapping projects resisting such erasures: @DiarnaProject geo-museum, & Mnemonics, which promotes the formation of inclusive memory culture in Ukraine. publichumanities.ubc.ca/even…
ALT Photos of speakers Dr. Frances Malino, Jason Guberman-Pfeffer, and Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk for the event "Resisting Erasure: geo-mapping destroyed and forgotten Jewish communities" taking place Feb 14, 5-6:30PM Pacific Time, 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, and online. Overlaid on a photo of broken tiles piled on the floor.
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Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life retweeted
22 Nov 2022
@DiarnaProject beat you to it:
diarna.org/exhibits/jews-of-…
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Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life retweeted
18 Oct 2022
Tomorrow @DefenseIntel, @drum10thmtn, @NCCHAC, @DiarnaProject, @Harvard, and @lborouniversity will present at the World-Wide Human #Geography Data (WWHGD) Cultural Heritage & #HumanGeography webinar!
Register here 👉 wwhgd.org/events-1/cultural-… #CulturalPropertyProtection
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يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِن جَآءَكُمْ فَاسِقٌۢ بِنَبَإٍۢ فَتَبَيَّنُوٓاْ أَن تُصِيبُواْ قَوْمًۢا بِجَهَٰلَةٍۢ فَتُصْبِحُواْ عَلَىٰ مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَٰدِمِينَ
@yusefren @saudibus222 @moatazmatar @aalodah #الاخوان_المسلمين #ديارنا
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Diarna Geo-Museum of MENA Jewish Life retweeted
8 Nov 2019
/2 ..in commemoration of #Kristallnacht's 81st anniversary, @Conf_of_Pres with Beitenu: The Atlas of Jewish Life/@DiarnaProject present for the 1st time online documentation on 1000 Jewish sites attacked by the #Nazis google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer… #Shoah #Holocaust #WWII #NeverAgain
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"Chrystie Sherman, a photographer for Diarna, an online museum of Jewish sites in the Islamic world, once told me how she tracked down the last Jewish business owner in Syria, a millenniums-old Jewish community that once numbered in the tens of thousands...."~@DaraHorn/@nytimes
3 Oct 2021
"Nostalgic stories about Last Jews mask a much larger and darker reality about societies that were once ethnic and religious mosaics," writes @DaraHorn. nyti.ms/3l4A6Mk
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Check out this map of Jewish heritage sites in the GCC from @DiarnaProject
diarna.org/exhibits/gulf-jew…
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Thank you to the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities (#AGJC/@gulfjewish) for recommending Diarna as the resource for the "History of the Jews in the Arab World"! Since 2008, Diarna has documented 2,800 MENA synagogues, cemeteries, schools, & shrines.
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Diarna researchers have documented Jewish historical sites in three #GCC countries: the Kingdom of #SaudiArabia🇸🇦, Kingdom of #Bahrain🇧🇭, & Sultanate of #Oman🇴🇲. archive.diarna.org. In #UAE🇦🇪 an old Jewish gravestone was uncovered
#AGJC @gulfjewish @RabbiElieAbadie @hnonoo75
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Explore Gulf Jewish historical sites, incl 🇸🇦#SaudiArabia's "Mountain of the Jews," 🇴🇲#Oman's Tomb of Job, 🇧🇭#Bahrain's synagogue,& 🇰🇼#Kuwait's Jewish cemetery via Diarna's preliminary #GCC exhibit in honor of @gulfjewish (#AGJC)! @hnonoo75 @sajwani
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ALT Tomb of Job, Salalah, Oman (Photo courtesy of Diarna Geo-Museum of North African & Middle Eastern Jewish Life) https://diarna.org/exhibits/gulf-jewish-heritage-sites/
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“In the absence of a Jewish community capable of defending [the Hamadan, Iran Shrine to Esther & Mordechai], a U.S. org called Diarna (Judeo-Arabic for ‘Our Homes’) has decided the only option is to restore the site—virtually.” ~Sohrab Ahmari/@tabletmag
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Little known outside of Iran, secrecy, indeed a double secret, shrouds the Hamadan shrine to Esther & Mordechai, the heroes of the Jewish holiday of #Purim for saving Jews throughout the Persian Empire from genocide. #purim2021
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در نزدیکی میدان امام خمینی در همدان، زیارتگاه دو شخصیت مذهبی به نام های استر و مردخای قرار دارد که از قهر مان های کلیدی واقعه ی پوریم هستند. پوریم یکی از اعیاد مذهبی یهودیان می باشد که به مناسبت جلوگیری ار کشتار دسته جمعی یهودیان
#Purim #purim2021
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Why is Fariborz Moradzadeh (7Dorim) "trying to provide a virtual 3-D tour of the Esther & Mordechai mausoleum" in 2021? #Diarna's Erin Okabe-Jawdat created the model in 2011 & pilgrims have been visiting online for a decade.
@KarmelMelamed/@jdforward
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24 Feb 2021
It's Purim... a celebratory holiday for world Jewry & especially important for Iranian Jews whose ancestry can be traced back to before the story of Purim. My latest piece on 1 Iranian Jew trying to save the Jewish community's history and heritage online👇tinyurl.com/uz8zra57
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In honor of the recently launched Association of Jewish Communities of the Gulf (AJCG/@gulfjewish), the Diarna Geo-Museum proudly presents a preliminary exhibit of Jewish historical sites in GCC countries, incl 🇸🇦🇧🇭🇴🇲🇰🇼
(Pictured: Khaybar, KSA)
@hnonoo75
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ALT Khaybar, Saudi Arabia, 2012 (R. Shah/Diarna Geo-Museum of North African & Middle Eastern Jewish Life). Just off the main road heading north—about 95 miles outside of Medina—are the remains of Khaybar, a striking oasis that is home to a series of Jewish fortresses. At the summit of what is still known as the "Mountain of the Jews" is the Jewish fortress of Qamos. Essentially forgotten by Jews today, this ancient center of Jewish life is remembered throughout the Muslim world, and particularly by Shi’a, as the scene of a pivotal battle in early Islamic history.
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Thank you @janearraf/@nytimes. Originally a Jewish shrine, disputes about the holy occupant(s)/ownership of Baghdad's "Tomb of Joshua" led to persecution of the Iraqi-Jewish community in the 19th century & during the Farhud. See:
archive.diarna.org/site/deta…
nytimes.com/2021/02/20/world…
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