THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, March 28, 1980

The Shtetl and U.S. Intertwine in Her Life
in Adele Mondry's rWyszkowo' Memoirs

Adele Mondry applies her
recollection of a childhood
in the shtetl and her
acclimatization to life in
America with considerable
skill. She has made good use
of both her memory as well
as the notes she retained of
the transition from the Old
to the New World and has
recorded her recollections in
"Wyszkowo: A Shtetl on the

Bug River" (Ktav).
In this interesting collec-
tion of episodes, translated
from the Yiddish by Moshe
Spiegel, she brings to light
again the life of ghettoized
Jews, their family devo-
tions, their dedication to
faith.
There are contrasts in
these accumulated recollec-
tions that give emphasis to

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the close links Jews had in
the Old World with family
and neighbors, with the
synagogue and the legacies
of the past.
In these stories one
learns anew of the man-
ner of worship, the cele-
bration of Sabbath and
festivals, the loyalties to
religious observances
and to the community
that linked people de-
votedly.
A native of Wyszkowo,
the subject of the first por-
tion of her book, Mrs. Mon-
dry came to the U.S. in
1920. She was followed to
Detroit by her childhood
sweetheart, Harry, and
they were married here.
Like the parents, their
two sons are active in the
Detroit Jewish community.
With her late husband, she
became very active in the
Labor Zionist movement.
Mrs. Mondry began to
study and perfect her
English when her children
started school. She was
graduated from high school
in 1948 and earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree
from Wayne State Univer-
sity in 1958.
Her new book receives
acclaim in an eight-page
introductory essay by Dr.
Israel Knox, a distin-
guished American
Jewish academician. Dr.
Knox evaluates the influ-
ence of the shtetl. In this
essay the eminent
scholar expresses appre-
ciation for Mrs. Mondry's
nostalgic interest in her
shtetl, and judges her
work, her Yiddish, the
importance attached to
her subjects:
"Her nostalgic fondness
for what was and is no more,
is not a truancy from the
present but an enrichment
of it, a bringing together of
time and eternity. She
wrote the stories in Yiddish,
and her Yiddish is idioma-
tic, redolent of the aroma of
the shtetl. And now we have
it in English, in Moshe
Spiegel's excellent transla-
tion, which preserves the
flavor — the taam — of the
original."
The second, American
portion of the book carries
the message of devotion to
the adopted land. It em-

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