Ruth Linn
Ruth Linn is the former Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa, Israel (2001-2006). She is an expert in the field of moral psychology, and her research focuses on issues associated with resistance to authority. Her books and numerous articles focus on selective conscientious objection (Linn, 1989; Linn, 1996), women’s narrative of moral resistance (Linn, 2002), and the representation of moral conflicts during the Holocaust in Israel's collective memory (Linn, 2004).
Linn is the only Israeli scholar to have studied Rudolf Vrba, the Auschwitz escapee. In 1998, she succeeded in convincing the University of Haifa to award Vrba an honorary doctorate in recognition of his escape and his contribution to Holocaust education. The award ceremony coincided with the first publication of his memoirs and the Vrba-Wetzler Report in Hebrew by the Haifa University Press, after it was rejected by Yad Vashem. (Vrba, 1998; Linn, 2004; Video- part 1, part 2)
Linn was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Maryland University, National Institute of Mental Health and the University of British Columbia. She is a winner of the Erikson Prize of the International Society of Political Psychology for her pioneering studies on Israeli soldiers who assumed a position of selective conscientious objectors during wartime. She obtained her doctorate from Boston University in 1981.
Bibliography
- Linn, R. (1989). Not Shooting and Not Crying: Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Linn, R.(1996). Conscience at War: the Israeli Soldier as a Moral Critic. Albany: State University of New York Press.
- Linn, R.(2002). Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance. New York: KluwerAcademic/Plenum Publishers.
- Linn, R. (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
- Linn, R.(2004). Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
- Linn, R. (2004). The Escape from Auschwitz: Why didn't they teach us about it in school? Theory and Criticism, 24, 163-184 (Hebrew).
- Linn, R. (2004). Voice, silence and memory after Auschwitz. In Lentin, R. (Ed.), Representing the Shoah for the 21st Century. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
- Linn, R. (2008). Between the 'Known' and the 'Could be Known': The case of the escape from Auschwitz. In C. Guenther, & B. Geriech-Plelle (Eds.), Trajectories of memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts. New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 15-40.
- Linn, R. (2011). Rudolf Vrba and the Auschwitz reports: Conflicting historical interpretations. In R. L. Braham, & W. J. vanden Heuvel (Eds.), The Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary. New York: Columbia University Press, 153-210.
See also
References
- Ruth Linn's webpage, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa.
Further reading
- Laor, Yitzhak. " ", Haaretz, December 26, 2004 (See Linn's webpage for Laor's review in English and Hebrew)