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Ruth Westheimer (born June 4, 1928), better known as Dr. Ruth, is an American sex therapist, media personality, and author. ''The New York Times'' described her as a "Sorbonne-trained psychologist who became a kind of cultural icon in the 1980s.… She ushered in the new age of freer, franker talk about sex on radio and television—and was endlessly parodied for her limitless enthusiasm and for having an accent only a psychologist could have."〔Barron, James. "(Art/Architecture: Some Things Never Age. Just Ask Dr. Ruth )." ''The New York Times''. December 13, 1998.〕 ==Background== Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel in Wiesenfeld (near Karlstadt am Main), Germany, the only child of Orthodox Jews Irma (née Hanauer) and Julius Siegel. In January 1939, she was sent to Switzerland by her mother and grandmother as part of the ''Kindertransport'' after her father had been taken by the Nazis.〔〔German American Heritage biography http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/westheimer.html〕〔Dullea, Georgia. "(Therapist to Therapist: Analyzing Dr. Ruth )". ''The New York Times''. October 26, 1987.〕 Her safe haven, along with that of some 100 other German-Jewish children, was made possible by Swiss activist Franzisca Goldschmidt. (''See 2014 event below)'' In Switzerland, young Karola came of age in an orphanage, and stopped receiving her parents' letters in September 1941. In 1945, Westheimer learned that her parents had been killed in the Holocaust, possibly at the Auschwitz concentration camp.〔〔 Westheimer decided to emigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. There, at 17, she "first had sexual intercourse on a starry night, in a haystack without contraception." She later told ''The New York Times'' that "I am not happy about that, but I know much better now and so does everyone who listens to my radio program."〔 Westheimer joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Because of her diminutive height of ,〔 she was trained as a scout and sniper.〔(Urban Legends Reference Pages: Dr. Ruth Was a Sniper ) by Barbara Mikkelson, March 1, 2007, Retrieved March 2, 2007.〕 Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, and it was several months before she was able to walk again.〔〔Foreman, Tom (June 11, 2003). (Dr. Ruth: Sex Sage and Ex-Sniper on Global Sexuality ). ''National Geographic''.〕 In 1950, Westheimer moved to France, where she studied and then taught psychology at the University of Paris. In 1956, she immigrated to the United States, settling in Washington Heights, Manhattan.〔"Morris, Bob. "(At Home With: Dr. Ruth Westheimer; The Bible as Sex Manual? )". ''The New York Times''. December 21, 1995.〕〔"(America's Significant Other: Dr. Ruth (1991) )" ''OpenMind'' 1991.〕 She still lives in the "cluttered three-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights where she raised her two children and became famous, in that order." Because of the two synagogues she belongs to, the YMHA she was president of for three years, and a "still sizable community of German Jewish World War II refugees", she remains in the neighborhood.〔 She speaks English, German, French, and Hebrew. Westheimer earned an M.A. degree in sociology from The New School in 1959〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=All About Dr. Ruth )〕 and an Ed.D. degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1970. She completed post-doctoral work in human sexuality at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, training with pioneer sex therapist Helen Singer Kaplan.〔 She has written several books on human sexuality, including ''Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex'' and ''Sex for Dummies''. The full version of ''Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex'' is currently available online.〔(The Family Encyclopedia of Sex ) by Dr. Ruth Westheimer〕 Westheimer has given commencement speeches at the Hebrew Union College seminary, Lehman College of the City University of New York, and, in 2004, at Trinity College.〔"Gordon, Jane. "(Worth Noting: Calling Dr. Ruth (To Speak at Trinity) )". ''The New York Times''. May 9, 2004.〕 She also taught courses and seminars at Princeton and Yale,〔 and was the guest speaker at the Bronx High School of Science in New York in commemoration of Yom HaShoah 2008. Westheimer spoke about her life story and the audience of 500 sang "Happy Birthday" in honor of her 80th birthday. At the ceremony she received an honorary Bronx High School of Science diploma. In 2008, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Westfield State College. In 2002, she received the Leo Baeck Medal for her humanitarian work promoting tolerance and social justice. Westheimer 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Westheimer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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