1. Galit Hasan-Rokem is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald professor of folklore at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
22 Facts About Galit Hasan-Rokem
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Galit Hasan-Rokem is a published poet and translator of poetry, and a Pro-Palestinian activist.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem was born in 1945 in Helsinki to Jewish parents who were natives of Finland.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem attended the Helsinki Jewish day school from 1952 to 1957.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978, studying under Professor Dov Noy.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem became a full professor of folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem has produced several major works studying proverbs in Israel and the proverbs of Georgian Jews in Israel.
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Books and other works by Galit Hasan-Rokem have been published in more than eight languages.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem founded the Proverb Indexing Project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Folklore Research Center.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem assisted her mentor, Professor Noy, in developing the Hebrew University's Folklore Program into a full undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degree program.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem co-founded the annual Israeli Inter-University Folklore Conference in 1981.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem is credited with elevating the recognition of Israeli folklore studies to the international level.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem has lectured as a visiting professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, and engages in teaching and research cooperation with scholars in the United States, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Palestinian Authority.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem has been the associate editor of Proverbium, the yearbook of international proverb scholarship, since 1984.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem is a regular contributor to the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales, published by the Gottingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem has produced three volumes of poetry in Hebrew, some of which has appeared in translation.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem translated a selection of Swedish-language poems by Finnish poet Edith Sodergran into Hebrew for her second book of poetry, Voice Training: Poems.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem is a strong supporter of the two-state solution and the division of Jerusalem into the capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem served as president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research from 1998 to 2005.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem is a member of the Folklore Fellows international executive committee and advisory board since 1993, and a member of the King Gustav Adolf Academy for Folk Culture in Sweden since 2007.
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Galit 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.
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Galit Hasan-Rokem is fluent in Finnish, Hebrew, Swedish, and English.