Christmas for Joshua - A Novel (36 page)

Lastly, this novel owes its spirit to all ‘mixed’ couples, whose bond is a bridge, suspended over deep gullies of faiths, ethnicities, and cultures.
Their love is tested more often than the rest of us by the blasting winds of society’s prejudices and bigotry, yet they serve as
a fountainhead
of tolerance, openness, and human progress.

The songs and lyrics mentioned or quoted in the novel are acknowledged with a deep sense of gratitude and respect, including:

“
Adon Olam” by Solomon Ibn Gavirol (1021-1058);

"
All I Want for Christmas Is You
" by Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff (1994);

“
The Christmas Blues” by Sammy Cahn and David Jack Holt (1946);

"
The Christmas Song,”
commonly subtitled "
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
" or "
Merry Christmas to You
" by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells (1944)

“
The Christmas Waltz” by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne (1945);

“
Deck the Halls” by unknown lyricists, first composition by John Parry Ddall (c. 1710–1782)

“
Do You Hear What I Hear?” by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne (1962);

“
The First Nowell”
(“The First Noël”), published by William B. Sandys in
Carols Ancient and Modern
(1823) and
Gilbert and Sandys Carols
(1833), later arrangement by John Stainer in
Carols, New and Old
(1871) and
The New English Hymnal
(1986);

"
Frosty the Snowman
" by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson (1950)

“
Go Tell It on the Mountain
" by African-American spiritualists, later compiled by John Wesley Work, Jr. (1865), later adapted by Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey, Mary Travers and Milt Okun as "Tell It on the Mountain" (1963);

"God Bless America" by Irving Berlin (1918);

“
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen”
(“God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”), published by William B. Sandys (1833) (authorship unknown);

“
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
by Charles Wesley, altered by George Whitefield (1739);

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Hugh Martin (with Ralph Blane) (1944);

“
Hine
(or Hinay) Ma Tov” (Jewish hymn based on Book of Psalms, verse 133) by King David.

“
A Holly Jolly Christmas” by Johnny Marks (1965);

"(There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays" Al Stillman and Robert Allen (1954);

"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864), adapted by Johnny Marks (1950);

"I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Kim Gannon, Walter Kent and Buck Ram (1943);

"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" by Irving Berlin (1937);

"
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
" by Eddie Pola and George Wyle (1963)

"
Jingle Bells
" by James Lord Pierpont (1822–1893);

"
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
" by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne (1945);

"
The Little Drummer Boy
," (based on Czech carol "
Carol of the Drum
,") by Katherine K. Davis (1941);

"The Lumberjack Song" by Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Fred Tomlinson (1969);

"O Come All Ye Faithful" ("Adeste Fideles"), John Francis Wade (1751) (original authorship unknown and disputed, possibly 13th century by John of Reading);

"Only You” by Buck Ram
(1955);

“
Put One Foot In Front Of The Other” by Jules Bass and Maury Laws (1969);

"
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
" by Johnny Marks (1958);

“
Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” by Johnny Marks (1948);

"
Run, Rudolph, Run
" ("
Run, Run, Rudolph
") by Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie (1958);

"
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
" by John Frederick Coots and Haven Gillespie (1934);

“
Sheva Berachot” (“Seven Blessings”), unknown attribution, appears in the Talmud, tractate of Ketubot, pages 7b-8a (c. 500 C.E.);

"
Silent Night
" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht"), Father Joseph Mohr, English translation by John Freeman Young (1959);

"
Silver Bells
" by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (1950);

"
Sleigh Ride
" by Mitchell Parish and Leroy Anderson (1950);

"
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
" (Sixteenth-century English carol);

"
White Christmas
" by Irving Berlin (1940);

"
Winter Wonderland
" by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith (1934);

Also by Avraham Azrieli:

Fiction:

The Masada Complex – A Novel

The Jerusalem Inception – A Novel

The Jerusalem Assassin – A Novel

Non-Fiction:

Your Lawyer on a Short Leash

One Step Ahead – A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler

Author’s website:

www.AzrieliBooks.com