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Deal Announcement: The Posthumous Landscape
The Posthumous Landscape: Remnants of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe is a photographic tribute documenting the remains of places that were once part of everyday Jewish life in pre-war Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.
In it, Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer David Kaufman depicts a historic community that played a major role in the development of Eastern European society, and which left behind grand industrial complexes, urban neighbourhoods, architectural landmarks, beautiful synagogues, as well as vast cemeteries, and haunting memorials. This project also tells the stories of the afterlives of those places, many repurposed, some lovingly cared for by non-Jews who remember, and others slowly returning to the earth, but which are preserved in this book’s pages.
The Posthumous Landscape is a photographic testament to how our internal landscapes are inextricably bound to the places of our past.
With essays by Bernard Avishai and Joanna Podolska.
Coming October 2025.