THE POSTHUMOUS LANDSCAPE: Remnants of Jewish Life in Eastern Europe

Hardcover Photography Book

 

David Kaufman’s first photographic book, featuring striking images of Jewish historical sites in more than fifty locations in Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia. With photographs made between 2007 and 2016, this large-format book documents synagogues, cemeteries, Jewish neighbourhoods and architecture that survived both the Second World War and the Soviet era.

AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER
Date of publication: October 2025
14 x 11 inches, hardcover, 232 pages, 163 photographs
26,000 words of text including introductory essays by Bernard Avishai and Joanna Podolska and extensive background notes about the locations and images
From Figure 1 Publishing of Vancouver


SPECIAL OFFER: Book and Original Signed Print

Buy the book together with a special edition photographic print (see image below). The image is “Restored Synagogue Interior, Lancut, Poland, 2012” and will be custom printed at 13 x 19 inches in size on 16 x 20 inch high-quality archival paper.

 

$67.50$295.00
  • BOOK AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER AT 10% OFF
  • Books will be available to ship in late September, 2025
  • All prices in Canadian dollars. Taxes will be added as applicable for shipments within Canada
  • Within the provinces of Canada and the continental United States (except Alaska), the charge for shipping the book alone will be $15, and shipping of the book and original custom print will be free. Please contact us for shipping charges to other destinations.
  • The book is printed in China. All tariff charges for shipments into the United States are the responsibility of the buyer. (U.S. customers should note that the Canadian price is 28% lower when expressed in U.S. dollars, and there may be no tariff on the importation of Canadian photographs. U.S. customers have the option of buying the book alone at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.)