Front Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Unexpected Generation -- About Me -- Socio-Historical Context -- The Contemporary Polish Jewish Cultural Milieu -- Theoretical F ramework -- Identity -- Ethnicity -- Jewish Identity -- Conversion -- Authenticity -- Method -- Participants -- Procedure -- Analysis -- Positioning the Researcher -- Results -- Narrating Identity -- The Discovery -- Being Polish -- Being Jewish -- Sense of Mission -- Authenticity -- Models of Self-Authentication -- Primordial Identity Narrative -- Antisemitism -- Into the Future -- Discussion and Conclusions -- The World Gone Wrong -- The Discreet Charm of the Primordial -- Uncertain Identities -- As "Real" as They Come -- Bibliography -- Index.