2 Jewish Brothers Started a Magazine With $7 — Then Brought Arnold to America: Joe and Ben Weider

Joe Weider was born on the Main in 1919 to Jewish immigrants from Kurów, Poland; his brother Ben, turned away by Montreal architects because he was Jewish, came home from the war in 1946 to build the business beside him. — SOURCES: "Joe Weider" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Weider "Ben Weider" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Weider "Mr. Olympia" — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Olympia "Weider, Ben" — Encyclopaedia Judaica via Encyclopedia.com https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/weider-ben "Muscle Builder, Vol 10, Num 6, Page 16" — MuscleMemory https://musclememory.org/article/mb690316 "A Corner on American Muscle" — Sports Illustrated Vault https://vault.si.com/vault/1962/04/09/a-corner-on-american-muscle "Joe Weider, pioneer bodybuilder and publisher, dies at 93" — The Herald (Associated Press) https://www.heraldnet.com/?p=485584 "Montreal body building guru Ben Weider dies" — CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal-body-building-guru-ben-weider-dies-1.334942 "Bodybuilding Legend Ben Weider Dies" — American Spa (Associated Press) https://www.americanspa.com/news/bodybuilding-legend-ben-weider-dies "Obituary: Ben Weider" — The Jewish Chronicle https://thejc.com/news/obituaries/obituary-ben-weider-yawg0ta1 "Beefed Up" — The Forward https://forward.com/news/8999/beefed-up "Joe Weider: 5 Facts About the Man Who Pumped Us Up" — AARP https://blog.aarp.org/legacy/joe-weider-5-facts-about-the-man-who-pumped-us-up "American Media to Acquire Weider Publications" — Writers Write https://www.writerswrite.com/american-media-to-acquire-weider-11292002288 "Scientists claim Napoleon not poisoned" — Dawn (Reuters) https://dawn.com/news/289127 "Brothers of Iron" (Sports Publishing, 2006), Joe Weider and Ben Weider with Mike Steere — the brothers' joint autobiography