\nSalwa Bachar<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n
I was recently made aware of a musical documentary called\u00a0Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas<\/em>\u00a0(available to watch\u00a0here<\/a>), directed and narrated by Canadian Jewish filmmaker Larry Weinstein. The film features a panel of Jewish \u201cexperts\u201d including an ethnomusicologist, a music educator, a composer, a journalist, a known lawyer, several comedians, a museum director, a rabbi and even a Catholic priest. With this panel, the viewer enters the world of popular Christmas music, learning how the vast majority of American Christmas songs were created by Jewish songwriters with the confessed purpose of de-Christianizing Christmas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Larry Weinstein wanted to affirm before the world that the Jews de-Christianized Christmas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After the Jewish migration into the United States at the turn of the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century, Jews came to the forefront of American popular music and culture, making an \u201coutsized contribution\u201d through jazz, Broadway, Hollywood and even comic books. Mirjam Wenzel, director of the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, confirms this in the film: \u201cIn popular culture, as it was invented, Jews were at the core.\u201d<\/p>\n It was their rootless nature and their capability to assimilate that enabled the Jews to begin to create the \u201cAmerican voice\u201d in the 20th<\/sup>\u00a0century. Journalist Robert Harris tells how it happened: \u201cAmerica had gotten to a place where it wanted to create a sense of being American, not being Lithuanian or Latvian or Polish or German or Irish. And so the Jews, because they were basically rootless, were the perfect people in the perfect place to try and create this merging of outside and inside. And they did, they were unbelievably successful in doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n In order to create this \u201cAmerican voice,\u201d the viewer learns that the first thing Jewish entertainers did was change their name to hide any trace of \u201cJewishness.\u201d To name a few: Israel Beilin became \u201cIrving Berlin\u201d; Hymen Arluck became \u201cHarold Arlen\u201d; Asa Yoelson became \u201cAl Jolson.\u201d It was in this way that, discreetly, the Jews began to strongly influence popular culture.<\/p>\n Rob Bowman, ethnomusicologist, explains how Jews embarked onto Christmas music: \u201cFrom 1910 to 1940, American popular music is dominated by Jewish composers. So of course they\u2019re writing all the love songs, they\u2019re writing all the patriotic songs, they\u2019re occasionally writing Easter songs… So of course they\u2019re writing Christmas songs!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wenzel of the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt: \u2018In popular culture, as it was invented, Jews were at the core\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n What exactly prompted the Jews to begin to write songs about Christmas, a holiday that celebrates the birth of the Man-God Whom they crucified? One excuse presented was the commercial gain to be had from the endeavor. Comedy entrepreneur Mark Breslin reasons: \u201cYou could write a song that 3% of the population will buy the record, or you could write a song that 97% of the population will buy the record. The businessman in me says: go for the bigger market.\u201d<\/p>\n Though the commercial endeavor is presented as one reason for Jews writing Christmas songs, another reason seems to emerge when composer Ben Sidran explains the effect of Irving Berlin\u2019s famous song:<\/p>\n \u201cWhite Christmas<\/em>\u00a0was written by Irving Berlin in 1941 for a film called\u00a0Holiday Inn<\/em>.\u00a0That song is the song where Irving Berlin \u2018de-Christs\u2019 Christmas, he turns Christmas into a holiday about snow.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n Thus, the viewer learns that the secularization of Christmas through popular culture really began with Irving Berlin\u2019s song,\u00a0White Christmas<\/strong>, which was debuted by the famous Bing Crosby. Is it a coincidence that Crosby, a lifelong Catholic, was chosen to debut this song? Could it be that Jewish songwriters understood that their songs would have a better reception if presented to the public by Catholics?<\/p>\n As an aside, perhaps the answers to these questions can be found when considering\u00a0Irving Berlin was also a known Freemason<\/a>, a member of the Munn Lodge No. 203 of Manhattan, NY.<\/p>\n From\u00a0White Christmas<\/em>\u00a0onwards, Jewish songwriters would go on to write a profuse amount of Christmas music. A non-exhaustive list of other Christmas songs written by Jews is presented by the film:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Perhaps the most famous Christmas song of all is\u00a0Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>. What most Americans probably do not know is that the song was based on the Jewish childhood of the storywriter, Robert May (which was later set to music by his brother-in-law, Johnny Marks). Harris tells the story:<\/p>\n \u201cRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>\u00a0is the most Jewish Christmas song of all, because Robert May based the story of Rudolph, you know, \u2018had a very\u00a0shiny nose<\/em>\u2019, ok,\u00a0big nose<\/em>… you know, \u2018all the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names, they wouldn\u2019t let poor Rudolph play in any Reindeer games\u2019… He based that on his own childhood as a Jew.\u00a0Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>\u00a0is the story of a young Jewish boy in the United States<\/strong>. And you know what\u2019s so interesting about Rudolph? It\u2019s that Rudolph doesn\u2019t get a nose job.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSo, the point of [the song] is not for Rudolph to blend in and become another reindeer, the point of Rudolph is for Rudolph to be appreciated for what he is. It is the Jewish story.\u201d<\/p>\n Besides its Jewish roots, what effect did this song have on Christmas? Much like\u00a0White Christmas<\/em>,\u00a0Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>\u00a0further chipped away at the holiday by creating a \u201cnew mythology\u201d. Bowman explains:<\/p>\n \u201cIf you look at virtually every Christmas song written by a Jewish composer, they\u2019re not religious.\u00a0This is taking Christmas out of anything about a baby Jesus and you know, a manger and all of that stuff, and it\u2019s creating a new mythology<\/strong>, a mythology of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.\u201d<\/p>\n Music educator Rob Kapilow goes further, saying that the song was written for an \u201cinvented holiday\u201d: \u00abRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em>\u00a0is a story that has nothing to do with Christmas in any kind of religious tradition.\u00a0It\u2019s an invented myth about an invented holiday<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n With the explanation of this song, the viewer understands that Jews wrote secular Christmas songs in order to destroy Christmas. Their hatred for the holiday is evident throughout this film.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One instance of this hatred is when comedian Jackie Mason compares Christians to cows: \u201cWho cares if it\u2019s your own holiday? If I see a lot of cows on the street, I might to want to write about a cow. So, do I have to be a partner with cows to have to live with cows to write a song about it?\u201d<\/p>\n Another instance occurs with a comment by Breslin, who admits the beauty of Christmas but with a bitter envy: \u201cI have to say, the Gentiles [Christians] are really good at the prettiness of their holidays<\/strong>. Hanukkah just doesn\u2019t match up, you get a little wooden dradle, you spin it and you get some stale chocolates.\u201d<\/p>\n The last part of the film is dedicated to anti-Christmas propaganda, particularly the myth that Christmas was originally a pagan holiday (which TIA has debunked\u00a0here<\/a>). Harris takes some historical facts and twists them to create a fake history of Christmas, while insinuating that the Catholic Church used them to propagate \u201ctheir [invented] Jesus story\u201d:<\/p>\n \u201cThe secularization of Christmas started almost before Christmas. They [Catholics] decided that Christmas was going to be December 25 in 300 AD.\u00a0Christmas wasn\u2019t celebrated before that, really. It\u2019s not a major Christian holiday at all<\/strong>. So in fact people were celebrating the winter solstice for millennia. All these things we associate with Christmas are pagan symbols, pre-dating Christianity by thousands of years, and\u00a0the Church tried to sort of culturally appropriate these for their Jesus story<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n In a later comment, Harris goes on to repeat himself while making his own conclusions: \u201cChristmas was secular long before it was Christian. Christians are the ones who appropriated it.\u00a0The Christians took over Christmas, it wasn\u2019t the Jews stealing Christmas: the Christians stole Christmas<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n After this fake history of Christmas, the narrator goes on to state matter-of-factly while showing what are supposed to be Christmas scenes from old paintings: \u201cIt may be hard for us to believe today, but for centuries,\u00a0Christmas was nothing more than an excuse for a drunken party<\/strong>, and to abandon all inhibitions. A solstice celebration, true to its pagan roots.\u201d<\/p>\n The fact that the early American Puritans \u2013 who were\u00a0heretics, not Christians<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 outlawed Christmas celebrations is presented by attorney Alan Dershowitz as \u201cevidence\u201d for this anti-Christmas myth: \u201cIn the first lawbooks of Massachusetts, it was a crime in Massachusetts to celebrate Christmas. In fact, it was a crime in Massachusetts to\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0work on Christmas. Christmas by the Puritans was seen as a heathen holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What is particularly shameful in this movie is that it presents the unofficial \u201capproval\u201d of the Catholic Church. The progressivist\u00a0Fr. Thomas Rosica<\/a>\u00a0was a spokesperson for the Vatican at the time of the film\u2019s production and release. He makes several off-the-cuff remarks throughout the film that only serve to support the Progressivist\/Jewish agenda, which aims to enthrone man as the center all of things:<\/p>\n Disregarding its completely unhistorical anti-Christmas propaganda, the film actually presents information that is very useful for Catholics to know. With this film, we have the unashamed confession from modern-day Jews that it was Jewish songwriters who intentionally secularized Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Taken from here]Movie review of\u00a0Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas\u00a0(2017) Salwa Bachar I was recently made aware of a musical documentary called\u00a0Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas\u00a0(available to watch\u00a0here), directed and narrated by Canadian Jewish filmmaker Larry Weinstein. The film features a panel of Jewish \u201cexperts\u201d including an ethnomusicologist, a music educator, a composer, a journalist, a … Sigue leyendo How American Jews Secularized Christmas through Music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthcounts.com\/blogtraducciones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Larry](\"https:\/\/www.traditioninaction.org\/movies\/movieimages\/046_Cap.jpg\")
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Bing Crosby singing\u00a0White Christmas<\/em>\u00a0for the first time in the movie\u00a0Holiday Inn<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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In the movie the real Rudolph is featured as a drunk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Jackie](\"https:\/\/www.traditioninaction.org\/movies\/movieimages\/046_Cow.jpg\")
Comedian Jackie Mason compares Christians to cows<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"Fr.](\"https:\/\/www.traditioninaction.org\/movies\/movieimages\/046_Ros.jpg\")
Rosica: the Church does not own Christmas & approves its commercialization<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n