In 2021, Kushner was not only nominated for the Peace Prize, but the man who secured that nomination was Alan Dershowitz, the promiscuous self-promoter. The sole exception to that rule--per Alfred Nobel's wishes--is that the Nobel Peace Prizes are held in Oslo, Norway, and are conducted in Norwegian and English. When Swedish munitions and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel died, in 1896, in San Remo, Italy, he bequeathed what amounted to an immense fortune.