Irene Kacandes holds The Dartmouth Professorship in German Studies and Comparative Literature. Her publications include an experimental paramemoir on generational trauma, Daddy's War (2009), and a reflection on mortality co-authored with Steve Gordon, Let's Talk about Death: Asking the Questions That Profoundly Change the Way We Live and Die (2015). She edits the "Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies" series for de Gruyter Verlag and was President of the German Studies Association from 2015 to 2016.; Yuliya Komska is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Icon Curtain: The Cold War's Quiet Border (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and the guest editor of a special radio-themed issue of German Politics and Society (2014). In recent years, she has written about the transatlantic impact and memory of Radio Free Europe and is now completing a book about its visual history entitled Perfect Propaganda: Cold War Radio in the Golden Age of Television, 1950-1967.

"This is an exciting collection that appears at a moment when scholars in eastern European studies are exploring new modes of connecting postsocialism and postcoloniality. It makes an original contribution to this emerging subdiscipline, and is highly likely to stimulate new scholarship." * Catherine Baker, University of Hull

• List of Maps and FiguresIntroduction: A Discontiguous Eastern EuropeYuliya KomskaPART I: RE-PLACED RELIGIONChapter 1. The "Jewish Pope" in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic PlasticityMiriam UdelChapter 2. Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the BalkansPiro RexhepiPART II: DISLODGED DISSENTChapter 3. Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Definition of Belarusian IntellectualsTatsiana AstrouskayaChapter 4. Re-reading Kultura from a DistanceJessie LabovPART III: FICTIONAL CARTOGRAPHIES AND TEMPORALITIESChapter 5. Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central EuropeDaniel PrattChapter 6. The Transnational Matrix of Post-Communist SpacesIoana LucaPART IV: APPROPRIATED AFTERLIVESChapter 7. Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznan and Olsztyn's Bet TaharaSarah M. SchlachetzkiChapter 8. Bruno Schulz's Murals, Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an ArchiveAdam Zachary NewtonPART V: ELECTIVE AFFINITIESChapter 9. The Balkan NotebooksAnn CvetkovichChapter 10. A Polish ChildhoodIrene KacandesAfterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and RebornVitaly ChernetskyIndex