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Ruth Westheimer (Dr. Ruth) BookExpo America 2018 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. by Rhododendrites ,

Top 10 Interesting Facts about Ruth Westheimer

Karola Ruth Westheimer was born in 1928 in the small village of Weidenfeld, central Germany. She was the only child of Irma and Julius Siegel, a housekeeper and a notion wholesaler respectively, and raised in Frankfurt. As Orthodox Jews, her parents gave her an early grounding in Judaism. Under Nazim at the age of 38, Westheimer’s father was sent to Dachau concentration camp a week after Kristallnacht Westheimer cried while her father was being taken away and remembers that her grandmother handed the Nazis money, pleading with them to take good care of her son.

1. She WAS SENT TO AN ORPHANAGE IN SWITZERLAND

Westheimer’s mother and grandmother recognized that Nazi Germany was too dangerous for Westheimer, so she was sent her away just a few weeks after her father had been taken. Against her will she traveled on the kinder transport to Switzerland after her family said goodbye to her, aged 10, she stated that she was never hugged as a child, she was one of 300 Jewish children at the orphanage of a Jewish charity in Haiden Switzerland. She corresponded with her mother and grandmother until 1941 when their letters ceased by the end of world war two nearly all had been orphaned because their parents were murdered by the Nazis

2. She became a sniper with Haganah

After the end of world war two in 1945, sixteen-year-old Westheimer decided to immigrate to British-controlled Mandatory Palestine. She worked in agriculture, changed her middle name to Ruth, lived in the worker’s settlement of moshav Nahalal and Kibbutz Yugur, then moved to Jerusalem in 1948 to study early childhood education while in Jerusalem. Westheimer joined the Haganah Jewish Zionist underground paramilitary organization. She was trained as a scout and she became an expert sniper though stated that she never killed anybody and claimed that her small height of 4ft 7 inches, meant that she was more difficult to shoot. Aged 90, she demonstrated that she was still able to put together a stun gun with her eyes closed

3. She was nearly killed

During the 1947-1949 Palestine war and on her 20th birthday, Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during a mortar fire attack. The explosion killed two girls right next to Westheimer. Her injuries were near-fatal. she was temporarily paralyzed almost lost both of her feet and spent months recuperating before she was able to walk again.

4. She studied in Â鶹APP and USA

Ruth Westheimer in 2009,By Carl_Clifford_and_Ruth,

Westheimer later became a kindergarten teacher and then moved to Â鶹APP with her first husband. While there, she studied at the institute of psychology at the Sorbonne. She divorced her husband and then moved to Manhattan in the US in 1956. She attended the new school for social research on a scholarship for holocaust victims and worked as a maid for 7 cents an hour to pay her way through graduate school. While there, she met and married her second husband and gave birth to her first child. After a second divorce, she met and married a third husband and their son Joel was born in 1964 the next year. She became an American citizen and in 1970 she received a doctorate of education from Colombia University at 42 years of age. 

5. She studied and then taught the subject of sex and sex therapy

In the late 1960s, Westheimer took a job at planned parenthood in Harlem and was appointed project director in 1967. At the same time, she carried on working and researching sex and sensuality in the early 1970s she become an associate professor at Lehman College in the Bronx. She went on to work at several universities such as Yale and Colombia and also treated sex therapy patients in private practice.

6. Her sexually speaking show  propelled her to stardom

Westheimer gave lectures to New York broadcasters about the need for sex education programming to break taboos and subjects such as contraception and unwanted pregnancy. This led to her being offered a 15-minute guest appearance on a local radio show. It proved to be so popular that she was offered 25$ a week to make sexually speaking a 15 minutes show that aired every Sunday. The show was an instant success, it was even lengthened to an hour and then two hours long and opened up its phone line to listeners who asked their questions by the summer of 1983. The show attracted 250000 Listeners weekly and by 1984 the show was syndicated nationally. She later went on to host her television program, first known as Good sex with Dr. Ruth Westheimer, then Dr. Ruth show, and finally ask Dr. Ruth she appeared on shows such as the tonight show and late night with David Letterman.

7. Her catchphrase is ‘Get Some’

Westheimer in 1995,By John Mathew Smith &amp,

Westheimer has talked about many taboo subjects such as abortion, contraception, sexual fantasies, and sexually transmitted diseases and has advocated for funding for planned parenthood and research on Aids described as being a world-class charmer.

Her serious advice combined with her honest funny frank, warm and cheerful demeanor quickly made her Universally popular known for her catchphrase ‘get some’

6. She wrote about 45 books

Westheimer has written 45 books. Her first in 1993 was Dr. Ruth Guise to good sex and during the 21st century, she has so far published around one book per year. Often in collaboration with co-author PierreLehu. One of her most controversial is heavenly sex. Sexuality in the Jewish tradition Judaic source and grounds her teaching she has also written autobiography works called all in a lifetime 1987 and musically speaking a life through song 2003. She is also the subject of various documentaries such as Hulus ask Dr. Ruth 2019 and becoming Dr. Ruth on Broadway one woman play about her life.

9. She has been married 3 times

Two of Westheimer’s marriages were brief, whereas the last two fellow Nazi Germany escapees Manfred Fred Westheimer when Westheimer was 22, lasted 36 years until his death. In 1977, of her three marriages, Westheimer said that each had a formative influence on her later works in sex and relationship when the couple was asked about their sex life on the TV show 60 minutes, Fred answered the shoemaker’s children have no shoes.

10. She was a single mom

Ruth Westheimer in 2009,By Carl_Clifford_and_Ruth,

It’s fitting because Westheimer has always been ahead of the curve! During the 1950s, being a single mother was taboo. She was not single for long. Once she was married a third time, the Wertheimers had a son, Joel