Person · Open Library
- Born
- 4 June 1928
- Died
- 2024-07-12
- Works
- 117
Top works
- Joy of Connections
- Power
- Dr. Ruth Talks about Grandparents
- Dr. Ruth's Sex After 50
- Roller Coaster Grandma
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Film & TV
Acting · Karlstadt am Main, Germany
Ruth Westheimer, better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German-American sex therapist, media personality, and author. Her media career began in 1980 with the radio show Sexually Speaking, which continued until 1990. She also hosted at least five television shows on the Lifetime and other cable television from 1984 to 1993. Wikipedia
Known for
- Israel - Promised Land, Threatened State — Herself2023
- Sex: Unzipped — Self2021
- Ask Dr. Ruth — Self2019
- Tamron Hall — Self - Guest2019
- The X Change Rate — Self - Special Guest2019
- The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (archive)
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Karola Ruth Westheimer (née Siegel; June 4, 1928 – July 12, 2024), better known as Dr. Ruth, was a German and American sex therapist and talk show host.
Westheimer was born in Germany to a Jewish family. As the Nazis came to power, her parents sent the 10-year-old girl to a school in Switzerland for safety while they remained behind because of her elderly grandmother. Both were killed in concentration camps. After World War II, she emigrated to British-controlled Mandatory Palestine. At 4 feet 7 inches (140 cm) tall and 17 years of age, she joined the Haganah, and was trained as a sniper. On her 20th birthday, she was wounded in action by an exploding shell during mortar fire on Jerusalem during the 1947–1949 Palestine War, and almost lost both feet.
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