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"White Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer," and "Do you Hear What I Hear?" These popular holiday songs and many others have created the essential music to modern Christmas. Many of them were also created by predominately Jewish composers like Irving Berlin, cultural outsiders in a Western culture who sought to make a living by writing to appeal to the majority audience that too often rejected them. This film explores the lives of these creative masters, their creations, and the culture they shared, with dramatized musical performances at a Chinese restaurant with a Jewish clientele on Christmas Day. Thus illustrated, a story is told of how these musical outsiders created in song a secular conception of a Christian holiday that could welcome all peoples by celebrating values and hope far beyond religious differences.
Larry Weinstein
Narrator
Ben Sidran
Self
Jennifer 8. Lee
Self
Ophira Eisenberg
Self
Rob Bowman
Self
Mark Breslin
Self
Jackie Mason
Self
Joshua Plaut
Self - author of book 'A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to be Jewish'
Rob Kapilow
Self
Robert Harris
Self
Thomas Rosica
Self - priest, Congregation of St. Basil
Steve March Torme
Self - son of Mel Tormé
Lisa Geduldig
Self
Alan Dershowitz
Self
Mirjam Wenzel
Self - director of the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt
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Jason Charters
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Aviva Chernick
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