Ester Samuel-Cahn Explained

Ester Samuel-Cahn
Birth Date:16 May 1933
Birth Place:Oslo, Norway
Nationality:Israeli
Fields:Statistics
Workplaces:Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alma Mater:Columbia University
Birth Name:Ester Samuel

Ester Samuel-Cahn (May 16, 1933 – November 20, 2015) was an Israeli statistician and educator. She was a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]

Biography

Samuel-Cahn was born in Oslo, Norway. During the Nazi occupation of Norway, in 1942, her father, a rabbi, was warned that he would be arrested by the Germans.[2] He refused to leave in order to try to support his community.[3] In September, her father was ordered to report to the Gestapo office, where he was questioned and later sent to Auschwitz. Later that year, the Nazis were going to arrest the other Jews in Oslo, however, Samuel-Cahn's family were moved by members of the underground, Ingebjørg Sletten-Fosstvedt and Sigrid Helliesen Lund, to safety and later to a refugee camp in neutral Sweden. In order to cross the border, Samuel-Cahn and the rest of her family had to hide in trucks used to transport potatoes.[4] In Stockholm, Samuel-Cahn's family found out that her father had been killed in Auschwitz. In 1946, Samuel-Cahn, her mother, and brothers moved to Mandatory Palestine (part of which later became Israel).[5]

Samuel-Cahn received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1961. From 1993 to 1995, she was the president of the Israel Statistical Association.[6] In 1989, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[7] She was also a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1989,[8] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

In 2004, Samuel-Cahn won the Israel Prize for her work in statistics.[9] In 2012, she spoke at a memorial ceremony in the Martyrs' Forest in Jerusalem Hills, commemorating Norwegian Jews murdered in the Holocaust and remembering those who helped hide and protect Jews in Norway.[10]

She died in November 2015.[11]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ester Samuel-Cahn. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests. 2015-08-02.
  2. Torchlighters 2008. Jerusalem. Yad Vashem Magazine. 49. April 2008. 0793-7199. 12. 15 July 2018.
  3. News: This Day in Jewish History / Norway chief rabbi who stayed with his flock dies in Auschwitz. Green. David B.. 16 December 2014. Haaretz. 1 August 2015.
  4. Web site: Rabbi Isaak Samuel, הי"ד Rabbi of Norwegian Jewry. 2006. 1 August 2015. Samuel-Cahn. Ester. Samuel. Amos.
  5. Web site: Holocaust/Heroism Day Begins Tonight. Arutz Sheva. 2015-08-01. 30 April 2008. Fendel. Hillel.
  6. Web site: History of the ISA. 1 August 2015. Israel Statistical Association. Weissman. Ishay. https://web.archive.org/web/20070613224208/http://stat.haifa.ac.il/~isa/history.htm. 13 June 2007. dead.
  7. http://www.amstat.org/awards/fellowslist.cfm View/Search Fellows of the ASA
  8. Web site: Utenlandske medlemmer. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. no. 2 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20070715102608/http://www.dnva.no/c26849/artikkel/vis.html?tid=26861. 15 July 2007.
  9. Web site: Center members have been awarded distinguished prizes. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality. 2015-08-02.
  10. News: Martyrs' Forest Memorial Ceremony for Norwegian Jews Who Perished in the Holocaust. November 2012. Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael Jewish National Fund. 1 August 2015.
  11. News: Aderet . Ofer . 2015-11-26 . הפרופסורית שפתרה את "בעיית המזכירה" . . 2016-01-24 .

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