No Small Matter

Anat Helman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities; A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel; and Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s.

• Symposium No Small Matter: Features of Jewish Childhood Paula Fass, Introduction: Jewish Children in the 20th Century Uzi Rebhun, Jewish Reproduction and Children in the Modern Era Yael Reshef, The Role of Children in the Revival of Hebrew Eli Lederhendler, Children of the Great Atlantic Migration: Narratives of Young Jewish Lives Yael Darr, Divided Unity: Jewish Writing for Children in the United States and Palestine at the Onset of the Second World War Joanna Beata Michlic, Mapping the History of Child Holocaust Survivors Nava T. Barazani, Hide-and-Seek: The Tale of Three Girls in the Giado Concentration Camp in Libya (1942-1943) Amia Lieblich, The Children of Kfar Etzion: Resilience and Its Causes Hannah Levinsky-Koevary, Catskills Idyll: Children of Holocaust Survivors and the Bungalow Colony Experience, 1950s-1960s Liat Steir-Livny, Growing Up in the Shadow of the Past: Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors' Childhoods as Depicted in Israeli Documentary Films Nathan Abrams, Rites of Passage: Jewish Representations of Children and Childhood in Contemporary Cinema David Golinkin, The Transformation of the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony, 1800-2020 Essays Anna Shternshis, The Child Who Cannot Ask: The Holocaust Poetry of Moisei Teif Stephen J. Whitfield, The American Jewish Intelligentsia, the Claims of Humor-and the Case of Lenny Bruce Review Essay Deborah Dash Moore, Judaism and Jewishness in Histories of American Jewry Book Reviews (arranged by subject) Antisemitism and Holocaust Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.), The Holocaust and North Africa, Denis Charbit Havi Dreifuss (Ben-Sasson), Relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust: The Jewish Perspective, trans. Ora Cummings, Joshua D. Zimmerman Otto Dov Kulka, German Jews in the Era of the <"Final Solution> ": Essays on Jewish and Universal History, Richard Breitman Hannah Pollin-Galay, Ecologies of Witnessing: Language, Place, and Holocaust Testimony, Eva Fogelman Dan Porat, Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators, Gabriel N. Finder Liat Steir-Livny, Remaking Holocaust Memory: Documentary Cinema by Third-Generation Survivors in Israel, Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, Paula Cowan, and James Griffiths (eds.), Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward, Eleni Karayianni Arkadi Zeltser, Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union, Kiril Feferman Cultural Studies and Literature Omri Asscher, Reading America, Reading Israel: The Politics of Translation between Jews, Philip Hollander Batya Brutin, Holocaust Icons in Art: The Warsaw Ghetto Boy and Anne Frank, Richard I. Cohen Shalom Goldman, Starstruck in the Promised Land: How the Arts Shaped American Passions about Israel, M.M. Silver Naomi B. Sokoloff and Nancy E. Berg (eds.), What We Talk About When We Talk about Hebrew (And What It Means to Americans), Hana Wirth-Nesher History, Biography, and Social Science Joyce Antler, Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement, Deborah Dash Moore Jerold S. Auerbach, Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896-2016, Stephen J. Whitfield Jessica Cooperman, Making Judaism Safe for America: World War I and the Origins of Religious Pluralism, Deborah Dash Moore Yaacov Falkov, Meragelei haye'arot: pe'ilutam hamodi'init shel hapartizanim hasovyetim 1941-1945 (Forest Spies: The Intelligence Activity of the Soviet Partisans 1941-1945), Samuel Barnai Kirsten Fermaglich, A Rosenberg By Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America, Deborah Dash Moore Viktor Kel'ner, Shchit: M.M. Vinaver i evreiskii vopros v Rossii v kontse XIX-nachale XX veka (Shield: M.M. Vinaver and the Jewish Question in Russia at the End of the Nineteenth-Beginning of the Twentieth Century), Brian Horowitz Rachel Kranson, Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America, Deborah Dash Moore Laura Limonic, Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States, Ruth Behar Daniel J. Walkowitz, The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World: Jewish Heritage in Europe and the United States, Jack Kugelmass Martina L. Weisz, Jews and Muslims in Contemporary Spain: Redefining National Boundaries, Daniela Flesler Jack Wertheimer, The New American Judaism: How Jews Practice Their Religion Today, Deborah Dash Moore Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East Rachel S. Harris (ed.), Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Neil Caplan Brian J. Horowitz, Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian Years, 1900-1925, Abraham Ascher Pnina Motzafi-Haller, Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel's Periphery, Hila Shalem Baharad Hanna Yablonka, Yeladim beseder gamur: biyografiyah dorit shel yelidei haaretz 1948-1955 (Children by the Book, Biography of a Generation: The First Native Israelis Born 1948-1955), Israel Bartal Note on Editorial Policy

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