"Mazal Tov, Amigos!" Jews and Popular Music in the Americas

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction, Amalia Ran & Moshe Morad
1. Is "White Christmas" a Piece of Jewish Music?, Ellen Koskoff
2. The Musical Worlds of Jewish Buenos Aires, 1910-1940, Pablo Palomino
3. Tristes Alegrías: The Jewish Presence in Argentina's Popular Music Arena, Amalia Ran
4. Jacob de Bandolim: A Jewish(-)Brazilian Composer, Thomas George Caracas García
5. Walls of Sound: Lieber and Stoller, Phil Spector, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and the "Enlarging" of America, Ari Katorza
6. Singing from Difference: Jewish Singers-Songwriters in the 1960s and 1970s, Jon Stratton
7. ¡Toca maravilloso! Larry Harlow and the Jewish Connection to Latin Music, Benjamin Lapidus
8. Roberto Juan Rodriguez' "Timba Talmud": Diasporic Cuban-Jewish Musical Convergences in New York, Nili Belkind
9. Yiddish Song in Twenty-First Century America: Paths to Creativity, Abigail Wood
10. Fight for Your Right to Partycipate: Jewish American Rappers, Uri Dorchin
11. Gypsy, Cumbia, Cuarteto, Surf, Blah Blah Blah: DJ Simja Dujov and Jewish Musical Eclecticism in Argentina, Lilian M. Wohl
12. Queer Jewish Divas: Jewishness and Queerness in the Life and Performance of Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, and Olga Guillot, Moshe Morad
13. Third Diaspora Soundscapes: Music of the Jews of Islam in the Americas, Edwin Seroussi
Closing Notes: The Soundstage of Jewish Life, North and South, Judah M. Cohen
Index

Amalia Ran , Ph. D. (2007), Tel Aviv University, is a researcher of Latin American studies. Her publications include: Made of Shores: Judeo Argentinean Fiction Revisited (Lehigh UP, 2011) and the edited volume, Returning to Babel: Jewish Latin American Experiences and Representations (Brill, 2011). Moshe Morad , Ph. D. (2013), is lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Ono Academic College, broadcaster and director of two music radio stations. His publications include articles, book chapters, and the monograph, Fiesta de diez pesos: Music and Gay Identity in Special Period Cuba (Ashgate, 2014).