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Switchmas (earlier titles Ira Finkelstein's Christmas and All I Want Is Christmas) is an American musical comedy film directed by Sue Corcoran. It tells the story of a Christmas-obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida who figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, Washington.
Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Larry Weinstein and released in 2017. [1] The film profiles a number of musicians, including Irving Berlin, Mel Tormé, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Gloria Shayne Baker and Johnny Marks, who made a mark on contemporary culture by writing many of the most beloved Christmas music standards even though they were Jewish ...
The Jew's Christmas is a 1913 silent film. The film was written by Lois Weber , and directed by Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley . The first American film to include a rabbi as a character, it was positively received, and novelized the year after its release.
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a composing-songwriting duo with Ray Evans, with whom he specialized in composing film scores and original soundtrack songs. Livingston composed the music while Evans wrote the lyrics.
This version of the classic Christmas song was written just for David Bowie and Bing Crosby's 1977 performance, and remains the most moving rendition ever recorded. 4. Elton John, "Step Into ...
The song established that there could be commercially successful secular Christmas songs [13] —in this case, written by a Jewish immigrant to the United States. [14] Ronald D. Lankford Jr., wrote, "During the 1940s, 'White Christmas' would set the stage for a number of classic American holiday songs steeped in a misty longing for yesteryear."
Berlin's three-week-old son had died on Christmas day in 1928, so every year on December 25, he and his wife visited their baby's grave, Jody Rosin, author of White Christmas: The Story of an ...
As any Jewish parent in America understands — or any Jewish adult who has ever been a kid in America, for that matter — "holiday season" can be a fraught time, filled with Christmas tree and ...