A Communist Christmas
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Uploaded by citizenjoshkornbluth on Dec 21, 2009
Filmed and edited by 12-year-old Guthrie Kornbluth.
Last year, as he and I and my wife, Sara, were selecting a Christmas tree, I told him the true story of how my late father (his Grandpa Paul) had improvised a revisionist Santa Claus myth when I was a boy. Guthrie loved this tale, and since then has urged me to capture it on video. So we recently headed over to the nearby Christmas-tree lot with our little Flip camera and (with the kind permission of the people at the Delancey Street Foundation) shot this video.
As we were setting up, I was telling Guthrie about my old block on the Lower East Side of New York, when a man standing nearby -- he was there with his girlfriend to buy a tree -- interjected that they had just moved here to Berkeley from that very neighborhood. After we'd chatted for a bit, I asked this guy -- his name was Noah -- if he might be willing to listen to me tell my story while Guthrie filmed us; graciously, this stranger said, "Sure."
So that's what you can see in our video -- which is interspersed with a few photos of my dad (and one of a young me with his then-girlfriend, Sue Kover, who later became my beloved stepmother). We hope you enjoy it!
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Only in New York City, a communist Jewish Christmas! Can't make this stuff up. Sweet story and this is coming from an anti communists.
mao66ramcruz 2 months ago
What a lovely intergenerational collaboration! (and a great story too)
corey949 2 months ago
Awesome. Communist Chistmas!
Nothiean 1 year ago
What a great story ! Thanks for sharing this.
DubhHer0 2 years ago
Great show!
louarab 2 years ago
great story Josh!
weezer543 2 years ago
Now that's a real Christmas story! Congratulations to the storytellers, actors and video maker. And to Guthrie, I say, today E 7th St between C and D, tomorrow the Hollywood hills or better yet the Santa Cruz May Day Labor Film Festival!
raykorona 2 years ago