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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. 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