Almost all popular Christmas songs are the works of Jewish composers and writers.
For a sheer mind-boggling scenario it’s hard to beat the movie “Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.” How about serenading a roomful of predominantly Jewish customers by a group of Chinese waiters singing “Walking in a Winter Wonderland” — in Yiddish, yet —at a Canadian restaurant on Christmas Eve? Or that “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is an allegory of the Jewish immigrants — with prominent noses— who swarmed into New York and were derided as “Orientals” by the “real” Americans. The launching pad for the film’s shenanigans and weighty analyses is the simple fact that almost all popular Christmas songs were the works of Jewish composers and writers, many of whom — like the pioneer moguls of Hollywood — were emigrants from Russia. almost all popular Christmas songs were the works of Jewish composers and writers. The most prominent exemplar is, of course, Irving Berlin, whose “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” is considered the biggest song hit of all time (even if Wold War II GIs, stationed in remote parts of he world, adjusted the title to “I’m Dreaming of a White Mistress.
