Watch Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (Happy New Year!)

New York Theater: Why were so many of Broadway songwriters in the twentieth century Jewish? The documentary suggests several factors, as the documentary’s filmmaker Michael Kantor has explained: “It’s Yiddish theater, it’s Jewish liturgical music that feeds into great Broadway shows, it’s a Jewish ethos that says we’re not just going to amuse you but we’re going to instruct you: If you behave a certain way, you can get the girl, you can win. America is a place where that optimism will reign…These are children of immigrants who want to master the language….”