Abstract
«How I learnt I was Jewish». These extracts from interviews corne from a series of in-depth discussions aimed at exploring the meaning of Jewish identity in Hungary among members of the younger generation which did not experience the Nazi genocide. For most of the interviewees, their Jewishness was a belated discovery. For the descendants of Communist cadres, it had been subject to camouflage or deliberate ignorance, so that its eventual recognition occurred in dramatic conditions. In the absence of an adequate construction of identity within the family itself, it is the entourage, more or less marked by the ambient anti-semitism, which reveals or recalls it. These texts show some little-known aspects of Jewish assimilation under a socialist regime and the persistent traumas-of a imperfectly accepted historical past.
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