Slattery, Tom. Preshrunk Ponderings and Rumpled Rememberings. iUniverse, Apr. 3, 2001. p.
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These rememberings take place over "time" and can take hundreds and thousands of lifetimes.
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Based on such a small amount of data of uncertain reliability, it is hard to classify Damakawa precisely. It is probably best placed in the Northwest Kainji branch of Benue–Congo. The words that have been collected show similarities with both C'Lela and Kambari languages, and it may be that the Kambari words are loans or mis-rememberings.
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He also managed to distribute about 15,000 Schutzbriefe, protection documents issued by the ICRC that prevented the deportation and death of many Hungarian Jews. He is credited with rescuing between 11,000 and 15,000 Jews in Budapest. "Friedrich Born" The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation After the war, as most of the saviours of Budapest, such as Carl Lutz and Giorgio Perlasca, he returned to his normal life, and kept the rememberings of his actions for himself. Twenty- four years after his death, in 1987, he was designated as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
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The theory is set forth at pages v–viii. Ker discusses it again, with specific respect to nursery rhymes, later in the text (at pages 121–122). In the latter discussion, Ker opines that the mis-rememberings happened at a time when the Old English language was changing and also notes that it happened at a time when a "foreign and onerous church-sway" had already taken hold. It is known that Old English underwent such a change in the aftermath of the Norman conquest, a time during which the Catholic Church in England passed from English to Norman control.
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As Pauline Wengeroff wrote in her memoirs decades later, "Dr. Lilienthal made it a point to gather many of Brest's young people around him every day, speaking to them of acquiring West European learning, offering useful bits of advice, sketching out their future as men of culture. He won the hearts of these impressionable young people who, while remaining true to their parents' religion in matters of observance, were branching off into new paths in all other respects, turning even further from the cultural orientation of the older generation."Wengeroff,P. (2000). "Rememberings: The World of a Russian-Jewish Woman in the Nineteenth Century", Bethesda: University Press of Maryland, p. 74.
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Her mother had trained to be a medical doctor, though she did not complete her studies, and came from an artistic and literary family, including the pianist Isabella Vengerova, historian Semyon Vengerov, and Zinaida Vengerova, a noted translator and specialist on English and French literature. Her maternal grandmother, Pauline (née Epstien) Vengeroff, had written a book about Jewish family life, Rememberings, in 1913, noted for being an early work giving a woman’s perspective. Though her maternal family had strong Jewish roots, Slonimskaya's mother, denied her heritage, often causing confusion for the siblings. Raised in Saint Petersburg, Slonimskaya attended the Bestuzhev Courses and, at her mother's insistence, pursued mathematical studies, though she also studied dance at the Imperial Ballet School and drama at the Imperial Theater School.
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