Abstract
In our monograph we decided on an analysis of postwar identity in chosen Central European metropolises. We based our definition of metropolis on two principal characteristics of a city: 1.
One was the main representatives of the national state (in our case newly risen, even if with various historical traditions of statehood) in the first case we researched the identity of Czech Prague with German and structured Jewish minorities, the identity of Austrian Vienna with important Czech and Jewish minorities, the identity of Polish (Polish-Jewish) Warsaw with German, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, and French minorities, the identity of Norwegian Oslo (Christiania), Finnish Helsinki, Estonian Tallinn, Latvian Riga and the Lithuanian twin cities of Kaunas and Vilnius; 2. It is the main representative of the country or province: in the second case we analyzed the identity of Slovak Bratislava, which was, however, until the turn, a primarily Hungarian-German city with an important Jewish element and the identity of Polish Krakow.