The World beyond the West

Mariusz Kałczewiak is Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His first book, Polacos in Argentina: Polish Jews, Interwar Migration, and the Emergence of Transatlantic Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2020) won the 2020 Best Book Award of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.

Introduction



Part I: Affirming and Contesting the Empire



Chapter 1. Constructing Aziatchina: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918

Batir Xasanov



Chapter 2. Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the Caucasus

Curtis G. Murphy



Chapter 3. “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya Anisimov

Mateusz Majman



Part II: Creating the Other: Travel and Migration



Chapter 4. The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North America

Balázs Venkovits



Chapter 5. Negogiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914–1915

Jonathan Hirsch



Chapter 6. From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s–1980s)

Barbora Buzássyová



Part III: Representations and Fantasies



Chapter 7. Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League’s Depictions of South America

Marta Grzechnik



Chapter 8. Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial Discourse

Piotr Puchalski



Chapter 9. Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in Vietnam

Jill Massino



Afterword

Magdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz Kałczewiak



Index