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From the Archives: Why Jews Wrote Your Favorite Christmas Songs

12/10/2025 • 39 min

Did you know the soundtrack of Americans’ Christmas was written largely by . . . Jews? Most of the composers behind the holiday canon were the children of immigrants who fled pogroms and conscription in Russia and Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1920. Sammy Cahn, Frank Sinatra’s go-to lyricist, gave us “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” Mel Tormé, son of … Play episode

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How a Russian Spy Destroyed a Beautiful Mind
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Partition’s Ghost: How Pakistan Became a Deep State
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How North Korea Got the Nuke
The Opium War: The Original Trade War
Orientalism: How One Book Fueled 50 Years of Campus Unrest
Luigi Mangione & The History of Bourgeois Terrorism
How A Strange Group of Heroes Defeated Russia
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Why Jews Wrote Your Favorite Christmas Songs (From the Honestly Archives)
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Kamala Harris and the Election of Laughter and Forgetting (From the Honest…
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