The Gefilte Fish Chronicles

Welcome to the Dubroff family Passover! With 86 year old twin sisters Peppy Barer and Rosie Groman narrating, The Gefilte Fish Chronicles tells the story of how a family uses this special holiday, not only to celebrate a religious event, but to stay spiritually and physically connected through traditional meal preparations. Although this is a tale about one family, it crosses cultural and religious lines, to remind us of how many families embrace ritual as they celebrate holidays. A celebration of Spring as well as Jewish freedom, Passover is also the time when the whole Dubroff family gathers. The holiday begins with the 'Seder', a meal where the story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt, a journey out of slavery, is recounted in prose, song, and prayer. Almost 100 years ago the Seders began with immigrant parents, Minnie and Abe, and their eight children (seven girls and one boy) in the small Dubroff house in Brooklyn, NY. In the 60's the Seder was moved to Peppy Barer's, in Newburgh N.Y. where it remains today with anywhere from 60 to 110 gefilte fish eating family and friends attending. Join the clan for this annual festival and become a part of the family as they laugh, cry, argue, mince, peel, and reminisce, while preparing for this 100 year old celebration. 'The Gefilte Fish Chronicles' opens six weeks before Passover with the making of the perfect horseradish, and concludes with sunny goodbyes following a matzoh brie breakfast the morning after the Seder.