Friday, December 18, 2009

Merry, Merry: Music, Religion, Multiculturalism

...Many Christians feel that the true essence of Christmas has been lost, and I respect that opinion. It must be difficult to see religious tradition eroded in the name of commerce and further dissipated by others’ embrace of a holiday without a sense of what it truly means to the faithful.

Yet I also hope that those who feel this encroachment will on some level understand that the spirit of the holiday is universal. We live in a multicultural time and the mixing, and mixing up, of traditions is an inevitable result. Hence we have the almost century-old custom of American Jews creating a lot more Christmas music than Hanukkah music.

If you look at a list of the most popular Christmas songs, you’ll find that the writers are disproportionately Jewish...



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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Jews. are partially responsible for the commercialization of Xmas. Think of all the the Jewish owned stores from Macy's to Gimble's etc. In fact Macy's does the parade and was featured in Miracle on 34th St.