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.

Esti Dunow's Oral History

Esti Dunow - daughter of Yiddish writer Moshe Dluznowsky and art historian who is an expert on Chaim Soutine - was interviewed by Christa Whitney on April 17, 2015 in New York, New York.

This interview was conducted in English.

Esti Dunow was born in New York, New York in 1948.

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Video highlights from this oral history

Moshe Dluznowsky's Writing Habits

3 min 38 sec

Embarrassment About Father Cooking and Cleaning

2 min 13 sec

Father's Friends and Yiddish Artists' Gatherings

4 min 44 sec

IFA (Institute of Fine Arts) and the Yiddish Pen Club at the Atran Hoyz

4 min 12 sec

West Side Yiddish School

4 min 49 sec

Moshe Dluznowsky's Relationship to Poland

3 min 55 sec

"Sleeping Beauty's Primeval Forest": Painting The Hidden Remnants of Tomaszow's Jewish Community

3 min 20 sec

Moshe Dluznowsky's Life in Paris

5 min 20 sec

Moshe Dluznowsky and Zalman Shneur, A Friendship Between Jewish Writers

4 min 27 sec

Artifacts related to this oral history

M Milberger sketch of M Dulznovsky

Soutine by Esti Dunow and Klaus Perls

Mane-Katz Illustration - Two Men Drinking

Photo of Moshe Dluznowsky and Henry Dunow

Mane-Katz illustration, woman in coat and hat

Photo of Moshe Dluznowsky and Esti Dunow

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - menorahs and candelabras

Moshe Dluznowsky portait with Challah

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - spice boxes close up

Moshe Dluznowsky Young

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - Torah breastplates

Family Portrait

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - Kiddush cups

Abraham Walkowitz Dancer Drawing 1

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - Kiddush cups close up

Abraham Walkowitz Dancer Drawing 2

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - elaborate Hanukiah

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - lion Hanukiah close up

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - Rimonim close up

Moshe Dluznowsky Judaica collection - candle stick and Rimonim

Painting by Ilya Schor

19th Century Persian Ketubah

Enrico Glicenstein print of figure 1

Abraham Walkowitz drawing of Isadora Duncan

Enrico Glicenstein print of figure fighting animal

David Burliuk painting, possibly of David Opatoshu

Enrico Glicenstein print of figure reclining surrounded by human faces

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