December 18, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Boardman Road Branch Library
141 Boardman road, Poughkeepsie, NY United States

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Join us for this free screening 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. 52 minutes

Location: Boardman Road - Greene Rooms
Free and open to the public.