Galit Hasan-Rokem

Galit Hasan-Rokem (; born 29 August 1945) is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald professor of folklore at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author and editor of numerous works, including co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Folklore, her research interests include proverbs, folklore and culture of the Middle East, and folklore genres and narratives. She is also a published poet and translator of poetry, and a Pro-Palestinian activist. The Jerusalem Post has called her "a figure of some prominence in Jerusalem intellectual circles".

Early life and education Galit Hasan-Rokem was born in 1945 She attended the Helsinki Jewish day school from 1952 to 1957. In 1957, at the age of 12, she immigrated with her family to Israel.

Following high school graduation, she completed her compulsory military service and enrolled in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the late 1960s. She has produced several major works studying proverbs in Israel and the proverbs of Georgian Jews in Israel. Books and other works by Hasan-Rokem have been published in more than eight languages.

Pro-Palestinian activist Hasan-Rokem is a founding editor of the Palestine–Israel Journal As a visiting scholar at Rutgers University in 2014, she claimed that Israeli street signs exhibit bias against Arabic-speaking residents, since the Hebrew text is more prominent and the Arabic translation is often a phonetic version of the Hebrew.

Memberships Hasan-Rokem served as president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research from 1998 to 2005. Hasan-Rokem was Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/zu Berlin in 2004–5.

Personal Hasan-Rokem is married to Freddie Rokem, the Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th- and 20th-Century Art at Tel Aviv University and a published author in theatre studies. They have three children. Their son, Amitai, died in a hiking accident in 1990.

She is fluent in Finnish, Hebrew, Swedish, and English.

Selected bibliography

(co-edited with Regina Bendix)

English revised edition: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture, Brandeis University Press, 2008 (co-edited with Margalit Shilo and Ruth Kark)

(co-edited with Shirley Kaufman and Tamar Hess)

(with David Dean Shulman)

(co-edited with Alan Dundes)

Poetry