Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas on CBC

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.
Directed by Larry Weinstein (Inside Hana's Suitcase, Beethoven's Hair) and produced by Riddle Films.
Watch the world broadcast premiere on The Documentary Channel, December 3rd at 8pm ET and on CBC, December 7th at 9pm.
For more information, visit www.dreamingofajewishchristmas.com

[@RodFraserMusician]

Thanks for posting this. I watched it tonight on PBS here in South Florida and was hoping to find it on youtube to see parts or the whole thing again. What a great film!

[@lynneporges7734]

I did not know any of this❣️I am so grateful for this film🙏❣️I’m an Idaho Jew❣️♥️

[@bernardherrmann1849]

Jews wrote the Talmud not Christmas, ima start writing/singing jewish holiday songs and claim I wrote Hanukkah, here we go..... the dradle is spinning, get a Jewish lawyer and you are winning, you better eat that egg bagel before it gets cold, cheese pizza tuna fish and matzo....... tap your shalom tapper, we know that God loves jewish people better, and if you say that you are bored, spin that dradle all over your floor... .. thank you, I wrote Hanukkah.I love jewish people, you jews are funny! god bless everyone