We can date the modern condom to 1883, when a poor German-Jewish immigrant named Julius Schmid (he had changed his name from Schmidt) bought a sausage casing factory in New York. From these humble origins, the modern condom emerged when Schmid began fabricating them from those very same sausage casings. Regardless of halacha’s position on birth control, these condoms were literally treyf..
Despite his Hebrew origins, or perhaps in an attempt to hide them, Schmid marketed his products using Middle Eastern and north African names, namely Ramses and Sheik.
https://forward.com/culture/458665/the-secret-jewish-history-of-the-condom/
We can date the modern condom to 1883, when a poor German-Jewish immigrant named Julius Schmid (he had changed his name from Schmidt) bought a sausage casing factory in New York. From these humble origins, the modern condom emerged when Schmid began fabricating them from those very same sausage casings. Regardless of halacha’s position on birth control, these condoms were literally treyf..
Despite his Hebrew origins, or perhaps in an attempt to hide them, Schmid marketed his products using Middle Eastern and north African names, namely Ramses and Sheik.