Arnold Daghani. Who is he?
Arnold Daghani was born in Czernowitz, (not Suczava as other sources say) and he was a German speaking Romanian Jew. Some consider him today one of greatest artists of Europe in the 20th century. During his life, he had failure after failure.
He married his first and third wife (he called her Nanino) Rabinovitz, in 1940. His second wife was Gabriela Miga
I met him in Bucharest around 1955. Daghani impressed me with his British look wearing tweed jackets and smoking a pipe. I was ten at the time and he was my English tutor, the most expensive English tutor in Bucharest under the Stalin-style communist regime. I did not learn much English. He did all the writing with clear letters, while I was watching him. I was dreaming, me a ten year old boy, with him, a man in his forties, to escape to the Free World. He had an Airedale Terrier dog. One day, to show it to me, he walked for two hours from the other end of the city. We did not have sneakers in those days People did not have dogs in apartments. One can not even buy dog food. Human food was on coupons. So an Airedale Terrier looked very Western to me.
Continue reading the story on Miha Ahronovitz’s blog: Pictures from the Invisible
Arnold was also my father’s English teacher and a good friend of my parents. We were together in Transnistria and we appear in his book: Lasst mich leben. He was a great artist but a very difficult person.My family loved him anyway.
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Susanna, just great, thank you so much for your comment! It completes our knowledge of Arnold Daghani!
Edgar, Susanna,
Thanks so much for sharing your information about Arnold Daghani. It’s really fascinating to read about history from a first-hand perspective. It’s amazing how the internet is helping us to collect these historical accounts so efficiently from all over the world. Best wishes to you both and to Miha, as well.