ABSTRACT
The first thing to mention is that sub-cultures and geography are likely to overlap, as both are more or less dependent on the dynamics of history. A sub-culture which is slowly destroyed by history eventually loses its geography as well. This is exactly what happened to Jewish culture in Bucharest, which virtually disappeared after 1945. This chapter focuses on several aspects of community life, on identity ideology or fictional representations dating back to the first half of the twentieth century, insisting on the subjective reflections of some of its members. The term sub-culture will be used with two different meanings: the first one relates to the different chameleonic forms this ethnic group took in Romania, according to the region in which they lived. The community oscillated between three identity projections related to itself and the majority of the population.
