Ruth Linn

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Ruth Linn is an Israeli academic and currently Dean of the Faculty of Education at Haifa University in Israel. Her research interests are how moral decisions are made in stressful situations such as war and the Holocaust, and women's psychology and education.

She is the author of four books, including Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance (2002) and Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting (2004).

Contents 1 Education 2 Bibliography 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading

[edit] Education

Linn obtained her doctorate in education in 1981 from Boston University.

[edit] Bibliography

• Linn, R. (1989). Not Shooting and Not Crying: Psychological Inquiry into Moral Disobedience. New York: Greenwood Press.
• _____ (1996). Conscience at War: the Israeli Soldier as a Moral Critic. Albany: State University of New York Press.
• _____ (2002). Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance. New York: KluwerAcademic/Plenum Publishers.
• _____ "Voice, silence and memory after Auschwitz," in Lentin, R. (ed.) Representing the Shoah for the 21st Century. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books.
• _____ (2004). Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

[edit] See also

• Rudolf Vrba

[edit] References

• Ruth Linn's webpage, Faculty of Education, Haifa University.

[edit] Further reading

• Laor, Yitzhak. "Auschwitz, They Tell Me You've Become Popular", Haaretz, December 26, 2004 (a review of Linn's Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting)
• Johnson, Pat. "Israeli narrative omits Vrba", Jewish Independent, April 21, 2006.