Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
5 November 2017| 52 min
An offbeat, irreverent musical documentary that tells the story of a group of Jewish songwriters, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who wrote the soundtrack to Christianity’s most musical holiday. It’s an amazing tale of immigrant outsiders who became irreplaceable players in pop culture’s mainstream – a generation of songwriters who found in Christmas the perfect holiday in which to imagine a better world, and for at least one day a year, make us believe.
Genres
DocumentaryMusic
Cast
Larry Weinstein
Kang Ho
Steven Page
Gaston Poon
Decker Williams
Jeremy Salzman
Jenna Harris
Franc-Anton Harwart
Dione Taylor
Aviva Chernick
Justin Gray
Sash Striga
