Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas
(2019, original release: 2017)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Seventh Art Releasing, 2017
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
6349831
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Set almost entirely in a Chinese restaurant, DREAMING OF A JEWISH CHRISTMAS is 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 in it. Nominated for an **International Emmy Award** for Arts Programming. Winner of the Czech Crystal Award at the **Golden Prague International Television Festival.**

Film

In Process Record

Ben Sidran, Jennifer 8. Lee, Ophira Eisenberg, Robert Harris

Originally produced by Seventh Art Releasing in 2017

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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