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.
2017
HD
52min
Canada
English
Larry Weinstein
Kang Ho
Franc-Anton Harwart
Jeremy Salzman
Decker Williams
Gaston Poon
Steven Page
Jenna Harris
Dione Taylor
Aviva Chernick
music
christmas
jewish
jewish culture
christmas songs
songwriter
assimilation
famous song
