Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)

Director: Larry Weinstein

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.

Cast

Larry Weinstein

Narrator

Kang Ho

Owner's Mother

Steven Page

Take-Out Man

Gaston Poon

Owner

Decker Williams

The Boy

Jeremy Salzman

Father

Jenna Harris

Mother

Franc-Anton Harwart

Head Waiter

Dione Taylor

Young Woman

Aviva Chernick

Female Singer