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Ruth Collie, née Ruth Jacobs, (November 1888 – March 6, 1936) was an English-born poet who started her writing career in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was also known under her pen names Wilhelmina Stitch and Sheila Rand .
Her father, born Karl Adolf Rudolf Hermann Jacobs in 1901 in Gotha, was Hermann Jacobs, the great great grandson of the German scholar Friedrich Jacobs. [4] Her mother Marie Jacobs, born Marie Kohn in 1901, was the daughter of Hans Nathan Kohn, the German physician after whom the "Pores of Kohn" were named. [5] Ruth was the couple's only child.
Ruth Jacobsen (8 April 1932 - 19 February 2019) was a German-born lesbian artist and a Hidden Child of the Holocaust. During the Second World War, she fled with her parents to the Netherlands where she was hidden by the Dutch resistance until she was reunited with her parents towards the end of the war. Traumatized by the war, her parents both ...
I recently come into posession of a brass token approximately 1 and 1/2 inches in diameter imprinted with the words " Silver Dollar Hotel, Denver, Colo" written around the outer perimeter is, "GOOD FOR ONE SCREW" in the center, followed in smaller type, "MADAME RUTH JACOBS, Prop.
Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film [4] directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin.It stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, an American infantryman whose experiences during his military service in Vietnam result in strange, fragmentary visions and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him.
Ray Davon Jacobs (January 2, 1992 – August 26, 2023), known professionally as August 08, was an American musician. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He co-wrote the Billboard topping hit " I'm the One " by DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber , Quavo , Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne .
Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College , and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons , she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921, where ...
The Reader (German: Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in 1995.The story is a parable dealing with the difficulties post-war German generations have had comprehending the Holocaust; Ruth Franklin writes that it was aimed specifically at the generation Bertolt Brecht called the Nachgeborenen (those who came after).