Instead, here are a couple of traditional articles on Christmas songs by Jewish composers (well, such articles are traditional among people who go to the movies and eat Chinese food on Christmas). The list of songs, of course, includes "White Christmas," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," "Let It Snow," "Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland," and many others. Here is a compendium from The Deseret News, and here is another from a site appropriately called Kveller (definition here for those who need it).
Alas, both lists predate the greatest Jewish Christmas song of all time (h/t Alex Lubet):
A related genre is the Christmas album recorded by Jewish artists. A recent article in The Forward nominates Herb Alpert's aptly titled "Christmas Album" as the most underrated, if not quite the best (that honor belongs, says the author, to Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift for You"). Here is the gist of the Forward article:
But there’s one full-length Jewish Christmas record that rarely gets its just due: Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s wonderful “Christmas Album.” Having already dominated Billboard’s Easy Listening charts for much of the 1960s with instrumental albums like “Whipped Cream & Other Delights” and “!!!Going Places!!!” Alpert and the Tijuana Brass applied their patented “Ameriachi” sound to 10 Christmas-related tracks, unveiling the festive results on December 16, 1968. Though the sunny and playful record might have seemed like an odd capper to a tumultuous year of riots and political assassinations — and undoubtedly sounded like it was beamed from an entirely different universe than the Beatles’ “White Album,” the Rolling Stones’ “Beggars Banquet” or Jimi Hendrix’s “Electric Ladyland,” all of which had hit the shelves in the preceding weeks — it immediately soared to the top of Billboard’s Christmas charts upon its release.
You can read the entire article here. I have to say that I am unconvinced about this album, but here is a cut that you can judge for yourselves:
Bonus clip after the jump:
You left out Silent Night by Mendelssohn. Although he considered himself Christian, the Nazis viewed him as Jewish and banned his music.
Dylan croaking out of tune to his poor version of a Hava Negila-like song sung to Santa Claus — of all things, Santa Claus! — really was hilarious! What would young Bob have thought of this parody of himself?
Mendelssohn didn't write Silent Night. It was written by Franz Xaver Gruber with lyrics by Joseph Mohr in 1818. Mendelssohn was nine at the time.
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" does use a Mendelssohn melody–"Vaterland, in deinen Gauen."
Mendelssohn was the grandson of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
Interestingly, Mendelssohn wasn't baptized until he was seven, so he was briefly Jewish. And, because it's Boxing Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUbFj0BIc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6xCwNKtnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9A6Pqj-28w
Actually, Dylan's Must Be Santa is the greatest music video of all time, though it comes from an album I struggle to listen to. His rendition of this song is essentially a cover of one by Brave Combo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YklHIk3tyZM