Hi all!
I just found some major pieces of information that I thought the people on this thread might appreciate knowing about. Specifically, details about how the Dunsts were related to the Gluckstern family and some information about Gussie Gluckstern Kesten.
1. Beulah (Yiddish name was Baily or Beile) Gluckstern Dunst was actually **a sister** of the brothers Simon and Louis who started Gluckstern's restaurant. Nobody in my family knew she was a sibling, but her parents' names are the same as Simon and Louis', so there you go...(those names, by the way, are Moses Gluckstern and Chaje Ruchel Hasenfratz). As you know, she married Samuel (Shmul) Dunst in the old country and had two sons. She then immigrated to NY in 1925, where she lived until her death in 1933. She shows up in the 1925 NYS Census living with her son Meyer, and then again in the 1930 US Census living by herself in a Jewish home for older people.
2. Gussie Gluckstern (yiddish name Golde), also spelled Gosse on her marriage certificate to Louis Kesten, was a daughter of Marcus (Modche/Mordechai) Gluckstern. He was a brother of Simon and Louis, the restaurateurs. So that means that Gussie was **a niece** of the restaurateurs. She doesn't show up living in any census records with Marcus and his wife Rose (Reisel) because she married not so long after she immigrated. Interesting story that I figured out from the Ellis Island records: Gussie originally immigrated in 1903 with her mother Rose, and two of her three brothers (Max and Joseph). The older brother, Frank, had immigrated the year before and was now living with Marcus. For some reason, Rose and Joseph were sent back to Europe, though, and Gussie and her brother Max went to live with Marcus until the mother and little brother were able to re-enter the country in 1906. Gussie was married on 18 Jun 1911 to Louis Kesten in NYC.
I hope that helps shed some light on the subject for all of you who have been posting on here over the years. If you have any more questions about this family, I've done an extensive amount of work on their history, so feel free to message me here or at
sarahgluckstern@gmail.com. I have census records, Ellis Island immigration files, marriage and death certificates, etc. :)