A photographic tribute that highlights the stories behind remnants of Jewish communal life in postwar Poland, western Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.In 1992 Canadian documentary filmmaker and photographer David Kaufman travelled to Poland to produce a television program about hidden child survivors of the Holocaust. A decade later, he returned to make films about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Łódź Ghetto. Kaufman was deeply moved by the quality of Jewish material culture—the physical remnants of Jewish life—that he saw on these early visits. In 27 he set out on the first of many trips over two decades to record images of tenements, factories, synagogues, and cemeteries that were part of everyday Jewish life in preHolocaust eastern Europe. He also made photos of some of the places of despair and death where Jews were killed during the war.The Posthumous Landscape is more than an act of preserving memory. Kaufman brings his decades of documentary storytell