Ruth Linn

Ruth Linn is an Israeli academic and professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Haifa, where she has taught since 1982.[3] She served as dean of the Faculty of Education from 2001 to 2006.[4] Specializing in moral psychology, Linn has written about resistance to authority, including conscientious objection; women and moral resistance; and the representation, in Israel's collective memory, of moral conflicts during the Holocaust.

Ruth Linn
Born	Israel
Education	Hebrew Reali School Boston University (EdD, 1981)
Organization	University of Haifa
Known for	Moral psychology, Holocaust research
Notable work	Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting (2004)
Children	Three[1]
Awards	Erikson Award, 1990[2]

Linn is the author of five books, including Not Shooting and Not Crying: Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience (1989); Conscience at War: the Israeli Soldier as a Moral Critic (1996); Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance (2002); and Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting (2004).[5]

Education

Born in Israel, Linn attended the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa,[6][7] after which she was conscripted, in 1968 aged 18, into the Israel Defence Forces.[8] She obtained her doctorate in education (EdD) from Boston University in 1981.[9]

Career

After receiving her doctorate, Linn taught in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa from 1982,[9] and from 2001 to 2006 served as its dean.[4] She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Maryland University, and the University of British Columbia.[9]

The author of Escaping Auschwitz (2004), a book about the Auschwitz escapee Rudolf Vrba,[10] Linn arranged for the University of Haifa to award Vrba an honorary doctorate in 1998, in recognition of his escape and his contribution to Holocaust education. The award ceremony coincided with the first publication in Hebrew of his memoirs and the Vrba–Wetzler report by Haifa University Press.[6]

Awards

Linn was awarded the Erikson Award by the International Society of Political Psychology in 1990[2] for her work on Israeli soldiers and conscientious objection.[11]

Personal life

Linn is married with three children.[1]

Selected works

• Linn, Ruth. (1986). "Conscientious Objection in Israel During the War in Lebanon". Armed Forces and Society. 12(4): 489–511. doi:10.1177/0095327X8601200401
• ——— (1989). Not Shooting and Not Crying: Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-26497-9.
• ——— (1996). Conscience at War: the Israeli Soldier as a Moral Critic. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2778-1.
• ——— (1996). "When the Individual Soldier Says 'No' to War: A Look at Selective Refusal During the Intifada". Journal of Peace Research. 33(4): 421–431. JSTOR 24567
• ——— (2002). Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. ISBN 978-0-306-46523-9.
• ——— (2003). "Genocide and the politics of remembering: The nameless, the celebrated and the would-be Holocaust heroes". Journal of Genocide Research, 5(4): 565–568. doi:10.1080/1462352032000149503
• ——— (2004). Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-4130-7.
• ——— (2004). "The Escape from Auschwitz: Why didn't they teach us about it in school?". Theory and Criticism, 24, 163-184 (Hebrew).
• ——— (2004). "Voice, silence and memory after Auschwitz". In Lentin, R. (Ed.), Representing the Shoah for the 21st Century. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
• ——— (2007). "In the name of the Holocaust: Fears and hopes among Israeli soldiers and Palestinians". Journal of Genocide Research. 1(3): 439–453. doi:10.1080/14623529908413971
• ——— (2008). "Between the 'Known' and the 'Could be Known': The case of the escape from Auschwitz". In Christina Guenther and Beth Griech-Polelle (eds.). Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 15–40.
• ——— (2011). "Rudolf Vrba and the Auschwitz reports: Conflicting historical interpretations". In Randolph L. Braham and W. J. vanden Heuvel (eds.). The Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary. New York: Columbia University Press, 153–210.
• ——— (2016) with Dror, Esther. איך קרה ששרדת. (How Did You Survive). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publications (Hebrew). OCLC 951010824

References

1. Linn, Ruth (1989). Not Shooting and Not Crying: Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience. New York: Greenwood Press. p. xi.
2. "Erik Erikson Early Career Award". International Society of Political Psychology. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013.
3. "Senior academic staff". Faculty of Education, University of Haifa.
4. "Prof. Ruth Linn". University of Haifa. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015.
5. Laor, Yitzhak (26 December 2004). "Auschwitz, they tell me you've become popular". Haaretz (original in Hebrew).
6. Dromi, Uri (30 January 2005). "Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes". Haaretz.
   Linn, Ruth (24 February 2005). "Regarding 'Deaf ears, blind eyes,' Haaretz Magazine, January 28". Haaretz.
7. Linn, Ruth (2004). Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 5.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
8. Linn, Ruth (2002). Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. p. 2.
9. Linn, Ruth (1996). "When the Individual Soldier Says 'No' to War: A Look at Selective Refusal During the Intifada". Journal of Peace Research. 33(4): 421–431 (431). JSTOR 424567
10. Aronson, Shlomo. (2005). "Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting, by LinnRuth". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 34(5), 540–541. doi:10.1177/009430610503400552
11. "Professor Ruth Linn talk". New York University School of Law.

External links

• Webpage, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa.
• "'Yom Kippur War – 40 Years Later'. Conference: Dr. Ruth Linn". Institute of Israel Studies, 22 November 2013.