Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
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.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Larry Weinstein
Actors: Ben Sidran, Jackie Mason, Jennifer 8. Lee, Joshua Plaut, Larry Weinstein, Mark Breslin, Ophira Eisenberg, Rob Bowman, Rob Kapilow, Robert Harris, Thomas Rosica