Ruth Linn is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the

University of Haifa The University of Haifa ( he, אוניברסיטת חיפה Arabic: جامعة حيفا) is a university located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1963, the University of Haifa received full academic accreditation in 1972, becoming ...

. Specializing in moral psychology, she has focused on moral disobedience, including resistance to authority. 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); and ''Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting'' (2004).

Education

Born in Israel, Linn attended the

Hebrew Reali School , motto_translation = ''Walk Humbly'' , address = Hertzel 16 , city = Haifa , zipcode = 3312103 , country = Israel , coordinates = , other_name ...

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

, after which she was conscripted, in 1968 aged 18, into the

Israel Defence Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; he, צְבָא הַהֲגָנָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branch ...

. She obtained her doctorate in education (EdD) from

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...

in 1981.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).

Career

Positions held

Linn taught in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa from 1982, and from 2001 to 2006 served as its dean. She has held visiting scholarships at Harvard University, the University of Maryland, the University of British Columbia, and the National Institute of Mental Health.

Auschwitz research

In 1998, Linn arranged for the University of Haifa to award an honorary doctorate to

Rudolf Vrba Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the c ...

, who escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in April 1944, in recognition of his escape and his contribution to Holocaust education. She also arranged for the University of Haifa Press to publish Vrba's memoirs and the

Vrba–Wetzler report The Vrba–Wetzler report is one of three documents that comprise what is known as the ''Auschwitz Protocols'', otherwise known as the Auschwitz Report or the Auschwitz notebook. It is a 33-page eye-witness account of the Auschwitz concentratio ...

in Hebrew.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''. Linn subsequently wrote ''Escaping Auschwitz'' (2004), a book about Vrba.

Awards

Linn was awarded the Erikson Award by the

International Society of Political Psychology The International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is an interdisciplinary not-for-profit organization, representing all fields of enquiry involved with the exploration of relationships between both psychological and political processes and ...

in 1990 for her work on Israeli soldiers and

conscientious objection A conscientious objector (often shortened to conchie) is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion. The term has also been extended to objecti ...

."Professor Ruth Linn talk"
New York University School of Law.

Personal life

Linn is married with three children.

Selected works

* (1989). * (1996). * (2002). * (2004). * (2004). "Voice, silence and memory after Auschwitz". In Lentin, R. (ed.). ''Representing the Shoah for the 21st Century''. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books. * (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 Randolph Lewis Braham (December 20, 1922 – November 25, 2018) was an American historian and political scientist, born in Romania, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the City College and The Graduate Center of the City U ...

and W. J. vanden Heuvel (eds.). ''The Auschwitz Reports and the Holocaust in Hungary''. New York: Columbia University Press, 153–210. * (2016) with Esther Dror. ''איך קרה ששרדת''. (''How Did You Survive''). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publications (Hebrew).

References

External links

"Prof. Ruth Linn"
University of Haifa.
"'Yom Kippur War – 40 Years Later'. Conference: Dr. Ruth Linn"
Institute of Israel Studies, 22 November 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Linn, Ruth 1950 births Boston University School of Education alumni Hebrew Reali School alumni Israeli non-fiction writers Israeli women academics Living people Moral psychologists University of Haifa faculty