Ruth Linn
Ruth Linn | |
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רות לין | |
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| Education |
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| Organization | University of Haifa |
| Known for | Moral psychology, Holocaust research |
| Notable work | Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting (2004) |
| Awards | Erikson Award, 1990[1] |
| Website | "Prof. Ruth Linn". University of Haifa. |
Ruth Linn (Hebrew: רות לין) 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]
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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Positions held
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Linn is married with three children.[10]
Selected works
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- (2004). "Voice, silence and memory after Auschwitz". In Lentin, R. (ed.). Representing the Shoah for the 21st Century. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- (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. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- (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. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- (2016) with Esther Dror. איך קרה ששרדת. (How Did You Survive). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publications (Hebrew). OCLC 951010824
References
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- ^ Laor, Yitzhak (26 December 2004). "Auschwitz, they tell me you've become popular". Haaretz.
- ^ a b c 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.
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- ^ a b 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
- ^ Aronson, Shlomo. (2005). "Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting, by Ruth Linn". Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 34(5), 540–541. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ "Professor Ruth Linn talk". New York University School of Law.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- "Prof. Ruth Linn". University of Haifa.
- "'Yom Kippur War – 40 Years Later'. Conference: Dr. Ruth Linn". Institute of Israel Studies, 22 November 2013.
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