RSVP for "Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas" on December 15th
And join us at The History Museum for our Annual Meeting, featuring the launch of our Jewish community's Digital Archive!
Please RSVP for the Michiana Jewish Historical Society’s Annual Meeting at The History Museum in South Bend on Sunday, December 15th. We will feature the launch of our Jewish community’s Digital Archive (Phase 1)*, followed by a screening of Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas, a musical documentary about the amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christmas (see below).
WHEN: Sunday, December 15th
Annual Meeting starts at 12:30 PM & includes a preview of our Digital Archive, followed by Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas from 1 to 2 PMWHERE: The History Museum at 808 W. Washington, South Bend, IN 46601
Enter parking lot from Thomas Street.
Click below to watch a preview of Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.
Set almost entirely in a Chinese restaurant, Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas is 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 in it.
*The Digital Archive Project is funded by a Heritage Support Grant provided by the Indiana Historical Society and made possible by Lilly Endowment, Inc.