Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps and Figures vii
4. Introduction: A Discontiguous Eastern Europe 1
5. Part I. Re-placed Religion
6. Introduction 29
7. 1. The “Jewish Pope” in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic Plasticity 31
8. 2. Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans 53
9. Part II. Dislodged Dissent
10. Introduction 79
11. 3. Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Defi nition of Belarusian Intellectuals 81
12. 4. Re-reading Kultura from a Distance 104
13. Part III. Fictional Cartographies and Temporalities
14. Introduction 131
15. 5. Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central Europe 133
16. 6. The Transnational Matrix of Post-Communist Spaces 151
17. Part IV. Appropriated Afterlives
18. Introduction 173
19. 7. Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznań and Olsztyn’s Bet Tahara 175
20. 8. Bruno Schulz’s Murals, Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an Archive 202
21. Part V. Elective Affinities
22. Introduction 227
23. 9. The Balkan Notebooks 229
24. 10. A Polish Childhood 248
25. Afterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and Reborn 269
26. Index 282