The Yiddish Book Center's

Wexler Oral History Project

A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.

Both “Fiercely Proud” and “Distinctly Embarrassed”: To Have a Yiddish Writer as a Father

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Henry Dunow, the son of Yiddish writer Moshe Dluznowsky, talks about the tension his parents struggled with between retaining a connection to Yiddish culture and assimilation, and its lingering effects on him.

This is an excerpt from an oral history with Henry Dunow.

This excerpt is in English.

Henry Dunow was born in 1952.

This interview is part of the Beyond the Books: Yiddish writers and their descendants series.