Ruth Linn

Dean (2001-2006)
Faculty of Education
Brazil Building, Haifa University
Haifa, Israel, 31905

E-mail: linnruth@gmail.com
Tel: 972-4-8249-390
Fax: 972-4-8240-911
Room: 544 (5th floor)

Full Professor
Doctor of Education, Boston University , Mass, U.S.A (1981)

 

Moral decisions in stressful situations
Narratives of moral resistance in times of war and peace
Holocaust related moral dilemmas
Psychology of gender

 

Moral Conflict in Times of War & Peace (Graduate level)
Women as Moral Decision Makers (Graduate level)
Play therapy (Undergraduate & Graduate level)
The Testimony and the Soul: Memory delusions across the life span (Undergraduate & Graduate level )

Books

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. (2004). Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting. Ithaca, New York:Cornell University Press            book review 1, book review 2, book review 3, video clip - part 1, video clip - part 2

Selected Articles

Linn, R., & Gilligan, C. (1990).  One action, two moral  orientations ‑ The tension between justice and care    voices in Israeli selective conscientious objectors.  New Ideas in Psychology, 8, 189‑203.
video clip

 

Linn, R., & Gilligan, C. (1990). Pascal's law: A reply to  Haste and Blasi.
            New Ideas in  Psychology
, 8, 215‑219.

 

Linn, R. (1995). The claim for moral maturity, consistency and integrity among objecting Israeli soldiers.  
            Journal of Applied Social Psychology
, 25, 399-417.

 

Linn, R. (1996). `Thirty nothing': What do counselors know about mature single women who wish for a             child and a family? International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling, 18, 69-84.

 

Linn,  R. (1997). Assuming a position: Women and men as moral critics in their own war zone.
            Journal of Adult  Development,
6, 45-57
.

 
Linn, R. (1998). The Israeli connection. In R. Vrba, I escaped from Auschwitz.(pp. 19-22). Haifa: Haifa University Press (Hebrew).
 

Linn, R. (1999). In the name of the Holocaust: Fears and Hopes among Israeli soldiers and Palestinians.
            Journal of
Genocide Research, 1, 439-453.

 

Linn, R. (2001). Naked victims, dressed-up memory: The escape from Auschwitz and the Israeli            historiography. Israel Studies Bulletin

 

Linn, R. (2002). Conscience at war: Kohlberg's moral psychology and the study of resistance at  war.
            Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology
, 7,3, 337-355.

 

Linn, R. (2002). Soldiers with conscience never die, they are just ignored by society.
            Journal of  Military Ethics, 1,2,57-76.

 

Linn, R. (2003). Genocide and the politic of remembering: The nameless: the celebrated and the 
            would be Holocaust heroes
. Journal of Genocide Research, 5(4): 565-568
. - View the full article

 

Linn, R. ( 2004). The Escape from Auschwitz: Why didn't they teach us about it in school.
            Theory and Criticism, 24, 163-184 (Hebrew) - View the full article

 
Linn, R. (2006, Sept). Against all hope - Escaping Auschwitz, escaping memory. Paper presented at the 2nd Global Conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries. Mansfield College, Oxford. View the full article
 

Linn, R. (2008). Between the "Known" and the "Could Be Known": The case of the escape from Auschwitz. in Guenther,C. and Geriech-Plelle Beth (Eds.). Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts. Newcastle:Cambridge Scholars Publishing

 
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. (pp. 153-210). New York: Columbia University Press.
 
 
 

Linn - Vrba Citations

 
 
 


Last Updated: 20.06.2012