 They raised one son and two daughters.Succeeding and , Hundert represents the postwar-born generation of premodern Polish Jewish historians and, along with Moshe Rosman and , establishes “a new era of the historiography of Polish Jewry.” 

His first monograph, "The Jews in a Polish Private Town" (1992), studies social and economic history of Opatów Jewry in the eighteenth century, exemplifying Jewish autonomy and identity and their crucial commercial roles in the later period of the Commonwealth.The work also sheds new light on Polish local history and Jewish microhistory.