Release of The Jew's Christmas

Date: December 18, 1913 • Location: Washington, United States

The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.

The Jew's Christmas is a 1913 silent film. The film was written by Lois Weber, and directed by Weber and her husband Phillips Smalley. The first American film to include a rabbi as a character, it was positively received, and novelized the year after its release. Modern analysts have described the film as encouraging Jewish assimilation and interfaith marriage in Judaism, and as incorporating prejudiced ideas about Jews.