Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas

  • Genre: Nonfiction
  • Release Date: 2017-12-03
  • Advisory Rating: TV-PG
  • Episodes: 1
  • iTunes Price: USD 1.99
  • iTunes HD Price: USD 2.99

Description

An offbeat, irreverent 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 the world's most musical holiday. It's an amazing look at the 20th century North American immigrant experience and the extraordinary outburst of musical energy from the children of those immigrants. This new generation rejected their parents' European past and instead embraced Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and, finally, Hollywood. The outsiders began writing the soundtrack to the insiders' American dreams and in doing so, wrote themselves into history. Telling this story through words and song, Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas features rarely-seen archival footage, musical performances and interviews with contemporary writers and performers, as well as connoisseurs of North American popular music.

Episodes

Title Time Price
1 Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 52:08 Season Only Buy on iTunes

Reviews

  • Oxymoron title

    1
    By Ryan1996brown
    Rage bait at its finest
  • How delightful! How interesting!

    5
    By Queen of 227
    I had no idea that so many of the popular secular Christmas songs were written by Jews who were describing the experience of the season. Gave me a new and richer appreciation for the contributions made by both Chinese and Jewish people in our American cultural narrative. Excellent!
  • Enlightening and delightful

    5
    By TupeloHoney
    I was so pleasantly surprised to find out the origins of our beloved Christmas songs and the hope to help connect our Jewish brothers and sisters to what we deem as such an important time of year in America.

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