Ruth Linn

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Ruth Linn
Born
Israel
Education
Organization University of Haifa
Known for Moral psychology, Holocaust research
Notable workEscaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting (2004)
AwardsErikson Award, 1990 [1]
Website "Prof. Ruth Linn". University of Haifa.

Ruth Linn is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Haifa. Specializing in moral psychology, she has focused on moral disobedience, including resistance to authority. [2]

Contents

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). [3] [4]

Education

Born in Israel, Linn attended the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, [4] [5] after which she was conscripted, in 1968 aged 18, into the Israel Defence Forces. [6] She obtained her doctorate in education (EdD) from Boston University in 1981. [7]

Career

Positions held

Linn taught in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa from 1982, [7] 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. [2]

Auschwitz research

In 1998, Linn arranged for the University of Haifa to award an honorary doctorate to Rudolf Vrba, 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 in Hebrew. [4] Linn subsequently wrote Escaping Auschwitz (2004), a book about Vrba. [8]

Awards

Linn was awarded the Erikson Award by the International Society of Political Psychology in 1990 [1] for her work on Israeli soldiers and conscientious objection. [9]

Personal life

Linn is married with three children. [10]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 "Erik Erikson Early Career Award: Past winners". International Society of Political Psychology. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Prof. Ruth Linn". University of Haifa. Archived from the original on 8 July 2015.
  3. Laor, Yitzhak (26 December 2004). "Auschwitz, they tell me you've become popular". Haaretz.
  4. 1 2 3 Dromi, Uri (30 January 2005). "Deaf Ears, Blind Eyes". Haaretz.
  5. Linn, Ruth (2004). Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting . Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p.  5. ISBN   9780801441301.
  6. Linn, Ruth (2002). Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. p. 2.
  7. 1 2 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
  8. Aronson, Shlomo. (2005). "Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting, by Ruth Linn". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 34(5), 540–541. doi : 10.1177/009430610503400552
  9. "Professor Ruth Linn talk". New York University School of Law.
  10. Linn, Ruth (1989). Not Shooting and Not Crying: Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience . New York: Greenwood Press. p. xi. ISBN   9780313264979.