She maintained deep connections with the expatriate Yiddish literary community. Her Four languages books are written in English, Spanish, French, and Russian. Many of Hautzig's works are books about everyday life for pre-adolescent and early adolescent children. Cunzer was taught, among others, by Antoni Zygmund. Hautzig helped to discover and eventually publish the master's thesis in mathematics written by her uncle Ela-Chaim Cunzer (1914–1943/44) at the University of Wilno in 1937. She died on November 1, 2009, aged 79, from a combination of congestive heart failure and complications from Alzheimer's disease. They married in 1950, and had two children, Deborah, a children's author, and David. Rudomin met Walter Hautzig, a concert pianist, while en route to America on a student visa in 1947.
Hautzig reportedly wrote The Endless Steppe at the prompting of Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson, to whom she had written after reading his articles about his visit to Rubtsovsk. After the war, when she was 15, she and her family moved back to Poland, although in her heart, Esther wanted to stay. Her award-winning novel The Endless Steppe is an autobiographical account of those years in Siberia. Her family was uprooted and deported to Rubtsovsk, Siberia, where Esther spent the next five years in harsh exile. Her childhood was gravely interrupted by the beginning of World War II and the conquest in 1941 of eastern Poland by Soviet troops. Hautzig ( Hebrew: אסתר האוציג, born Octo– died Novemin America) was a Polish-born American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe (1968).Įsther Hautzig (previously known as Esther Rudomin) was born in Vilna, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania).
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