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Ruth Westheimer
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Dr. Ruth WestheimerRuth Westheimer, Ed.D (born Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4, 1928) is a popular American sex therapist and author best known as Dr. Ruth.
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Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Jewish family. During World War II, she was sent without her parents to Switzerland when she was ten years old. In 1945, she learned that her parents had perished in the Holocaust, most likely at the Auschwitz concentration camp. She decided to immigrate to Israel where she joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Despite her diminutive height of 4 feet 7 inches, she was trained as a sniper. Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and it was several months before she was able to walk again.[1]
In 1950, she moved to France, where she studied and taught psychology at the University of Paris. In 1956, she emigrated to the Washington Heights, New York City, where she earned a master's in sociology and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed post-doctoral work in human sexuality at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She is multilingual, speaking English, German, French and Hebrew.
Her pioneering TV show Sexually Speaking first aired in 1980 as a 15-minute taped show, which has since increased in popularity and has been nationally syndicated, as is her radio show. She is known to be candid and funny, but respectful.
In recent years, she has made regular appearances on the PBS Television children's show Between the Lions as "Dr. Ruth Wordheimer" in a parody of her therapist role, in which she helps anxious readers and spellers overcome their fear of long words.
Westheimer has written several books on human sexuality including Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex and Sex For Dummies. She has taught as lecturer and professor at Princeton University and New York University and led a recent sex seminar at Yale University.
She has been married three times. Her third marriage, to Manfred Westheimer, lasted until his death in 1997. She has two children, Miriam and Joel, and several grandchildren.
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Ruth Westheimer
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Dr. Ruth WestheimerRuth Westheimer, Ed.D (born Karola Ruth Siegel on June 4, 1928) is a popular American sex therapist and author best known as Dr. Ruth.
[edit] Biography
Westheimer was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Jewish family. During World War II, she was sent without her parents to Switzerland when she was ten years old. In 1945, she learned that her parents had perished in the Holocaust, most likely at the Auschwitz concentration camp. She decided to immigrate to Israel where she joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Despite her diminutive height of 4 feet 7 inches, she was trained as a sniper. Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and it was several months before she was able to walk again.[1]
In 1950, she moved to France, where she studied and taught psychology at the University of Paris. In 1956, she emigrated to the Washington Heights, New York City, where she earned a master's in sociology and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed post-doctoral work in human sexuality at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She is multilingual, speaking English, German, French and Hebrew.
Her pioneering TV show Sexually Speaking first aired in 1980 as a 15-minute taped show, which has since increased in popularity and has been nationally syndicated, as is her radio show. She is known to be candid and funny, but respectful.
In recent years, she has made regular appearances on the PBS Television children's show Between the Lions as "Dr. Ruth Wordheimer" in a parody of her therapist role, in which she helps anxious readers and spellers overcome their fear of long words.
Westheimer has written several books on human sexuality including Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex and Sex For Dummies. She has taught as lecturer and professor at Princeton University and New York University and led a recent sex seminar at Yale University.
She has been married three times. Her third marriage, to Manfred Westheimer, lasted until his death in 1997. She has two children, Miriam and Joel, and several grandchildren.
