ABSTRACT
I have identified both commonality and heterogeneity of experience when analysing the complex processes that have shaped identity formation among the respondents who were part of the postwar generation of Czech and Slovak Jews, and who grew up under the communist regime in the period 1948-1989. The most important differences were found in (a) parental background; (b) the size of the towns and Jewish communities where they grew up; (c) the year of birth (which in turn determined whether they came of age before or after the Soviet invasion of August 1968); (d) participation in a Jewish peer group; and (e) whether they had or had not emigrated.
