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A Short Biography of Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Author Name:

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Born As:

Karola Ruth Siegel

Other Names:

Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Born:

04 Jun 1928

Died:





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Psychiatrist, writer and lecturer                          
Selected Works:

 Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex and Sex for Dummies                          
Mother Irma Siegel née Hanauer
Father Julius Siegel
Married three times.                          
Speaks English, German, French, and Hebrew.

Master's Degree in Sociology - The New School
Ed.D.  -  Teachers College, Columbia University
Post-doctoral work in Human Sexuality - New York Presbyterian Hospital

TV Show - Sexually Speaking - 1982

 Leo Baeck Medal - 2002                          
Sent to Switzerland by her mother and grandmother after her father was taken by the Nazis - her parents had been murdered in the Holocaust, possibly at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Trained as a scout and sniper and was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.