Ruth Linn (Hebrew: רות לין) is a professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development at the University of Haifa.
[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).
[7] Linn taught in the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa from 1982,[7] and from 2001 to 2006 served as its dean.
[2] 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.