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Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin once said, “a patriotic song is an emotion, and you must not embarrass an audience with it, or they will hate your guts.” This philosophy made him one of America’s most outstanding writers of patriotic songs from World War I through World War II.

Berlin was born Israel Baline in Eastern Russia on May 11, 1888. He was one of eight children born to Leah and Moses Baline. His father was a shochet (one who kills kosher animals as prescribed by Jewish religious laws) and the cantor in the synagogue. His family moved to New York in 1893 to escape the pogroms in Russia. At the age of eight, he took to the streets of the Lower East Side of New York City to help support his mother and family after his father had died. In the early 1900s, he worked as a singing waiter in many restaurants and started writing songs. His first published hit was “Marie From Sunny Italy.”

Berlin was married for only a year to Dorothy Goetz, who died from typhoid contracted while on their honeymoon in Cuba in 1913. He married Ellin Mackay in 1926. She was the daughter of Clarenc

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Irving Berlin

With a life that spanned more than 100 years and a catalog that boasted over 1000 songs, Irving Berlin epitomized Jerome Kern's famous maxim that "Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music."

Irving Berlin was born Israel Beilin on May 11, 1888. One of eight children, his exact place of birth is unknown, although his family had been living in Tolochin, Byelorussia, when they immigrated to New York in 1893. When his father died, Berlin, just turned 13, took to the streets in various odd jobs, working as a busker singing for pennies, then as a singing waiter in a Chinatown Cafe. In 1907 he published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy," and by 1911 he had his first major international hit -- "Alexander's Ragtime Band."

Over the next five decades, Irving Berlin produced an outpouring of ballads, dance numbers, novelty tunes and love songs that defined American popular song for much of the century. A sampling of just some of the Irving Berlin standards includes "How Deep Is the Ocean," "Blue Skies," White Christmas," "Always," "

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I’m dreaming of a White Christmas / Just like the ones I used to know . . .

It’s hard to imagine Christmas without hearing this song, “White Christmas.” In fact, “White Christmas” holds the record for best-selling single—ever! Have you ever WONDERed who wrote this song? It was Irving Berlin, a songwriter so famous that it was said that he “has no place in American music. He is American music.” Yet this man who wrote the most popular Christmas song ever, the anthem “God Bless America,” and so many other well-known songs, was once a poor Jewish refugee from Russia.

Israel Baline, who would later change his name to Irving Berlin, was born in Russia in 1888. At that time, Russia could be a dangerous place for Jewish people to live. His family’s village was burned to the ground when Israel was young. His parents wanted to leave to find a safe place to live. When he was 5, he and his family immigrated to the United States. They settled in New York City.

His family was very poor. Then, his father died when Israel was only 13. He beg