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.

• IntroductionPart I: Affirming and Contesting the EmpireChapter 1. Constructing Aziatchina: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918Batir XasanovChapter 2. Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the CaucasusCurtis G. MurphyChapter 3. “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya AnisimovMateusz MajmanPart II: Creating the Other: Travel and MigrationChapter 4. The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North AmericaBalázs VenkovitsChapter 5. Negogiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914–1915Jonathan HirschChapter 6. From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s–1980s)Barbora BuzássyováPart III: Representations and FantasiesChapter 7. Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League’s Depictions of South AmericaMarta GrzechnikChapter 8. Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial DiscoursePiotr PuchalskiChapter 9. Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in VietnamJill MassinoAfterwordMagdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz KałczewiakIndex

“The volume is an important, high-quality and easy-to-read building block on the global history of Eastern Europe.” • Sehepunkte“This collection is a timely addition to emerging scholarship on Eastern European participation in the Othering and Orientalizing of the non-European world throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” • Epp Annus, Ohio State University“The World Beyond the West makes valuable contributions to the fast-growing international interest in and research on Eastern Europe and its global and transregional contexts.” • Frank Hadler, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

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.

• IntroductionPart I: Affirming and Contesting the EmpireChapter 1. Constructing Aziatchina: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918Batir XasanovChapter 2. Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the CaucasusCurtis G. MurphyChapter 3. “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya AnisimovMateusz MajmanPart II: Creating the Other: Travel and MigrationChapter 4. The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North AmericaBalázs VenkovitsChapter 5. Negogiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914–1915Jonathan HirschChapter 6. From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s–1980s)Barbora BuzássyováPart III: Representations and FantasiesChapter 7. Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League’s Depictions of South AmericaMarta GrzechnikChapter 8. Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial DiscoursePiotr PuchalskiChapter 9. Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in VietnamJill MassinoAfterwordMagdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz KałczewiakIndex

“The volume is an important, high-quality and easy-to-read building block on the global history of Eastern Europe.” • Sehepunkte“This collection is a timely addition to emerging scholarship on Eastern European participation in the Othering and Orientalizing of the non-European world throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” • Epp Annus, Ohio State University“The World Beyond the West makes valuable contributions to the fast-growing international interest in and research on Eastern Europe and its global and transregional contexts.” • Frank Hadler, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe

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.

• IntroductionPart I: Affirming and Contesting the EmpireChapter 1. Constructing Aziatchina: An Apology for Perceived Own “Emptiness” in Russian National and Imperial Discourses, 1828-1918Batir XasanovChapter 2. Involuntary Orientalists: Polish Exiles and Adventurers as Observers of the Kazakh Steppe and the CaucasusCurtis G. MurphyChapter 3. “These Sufferers, Constantly Lamenting Their Bitter Fate”: The Image of the Mountain Jews in the Writings of Joseph Judah Chorny and Ilya AnisimovMateusz MajmanPart II: Creating the Other: Travel and MigrationChapter 4. The East-West Dichotomy Disrupted: Triangulation and Reflections on the Imperial View in Hungarian Perceptions of North AmericaBalázs VenkovitsChapter 5. Negogiating Empires: Eastern European Jewish Responses to the Expulsion of Jews from Palestine to Egypt in 1914–1915Jonathan HirschChapter 6. From Exotic Adventure to Victimization to Estrangement: Imagining “Africa” through the Eyes of Czechoslovak Travel Writers (1950s–1980s)Barbora BuzássyováPart III: Representations and FantasiesChapter 7. Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Polish Maritime and River/Colonial League’s Depictions of South AmericaMarta GrzechnikChapter 8. Between Postimperial Expansion and Promethean Mission: Africa and Africans in Interwar Polish Colonial DiscoursePiotr PuchalskiChapter 9. Eastern Promises: Romanian Responses to the War in VietnamJill MassinoAfterwordMagdalena Kozłowska and Mariusz KałczewiakIndex

“The volume is an important, high-quality and easy-to-read building block on the global history of Eastern Europe.” • Sehepunkte“This collection is a timely addition to emerging scholarship on Eastern European participation in the Othering and Orientalizing of the non-European world throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” • Epp Annus, Ohio State University“The World Beyond the West makes valuable contributions to the fast-growing international interest in and research on Eastern Europe and its global and transregional contexts.” • Frank Hadler, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe