Galit Hasan-Rokem
Galit Hasan-Rokem (born August 29, 1945 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish - Israeli folklorist .
Life
Galit Hasan-Rokem attended the Jewish school in Helsinki and emigrated to Israel with her parents in 1957. She did her military service in the Israeli army and began studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . As an exchange student, she studied folklore in Helsinki with Matti Kuusi and Lauri Honko . She received her PhD in 1978 from Dov Noy in Jerusalem. In 1984 she received a professorship in folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She works on proverb research and in general on folklore of the Middle East. She has been one of the editors of the Proverbium yearbook since 1984 . Her contributions appeared in the Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales published in Göttingen . She is co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Folklore (2012). From 1998 to 2005 she was president of the International Society for Folk Tale Research .
Hasan-Rokem published three volumes of his own poetry and translated poems by Edith Södergran from Swedish into Hebrew. In 2013 she translated the poetry of the Swedish Nobel Prize winner Tomas Tranströmer .
Hasan-Rokem is married to the theater scholar Freddie Rokem and they have three children. You are committed to the political interests of the Palestinians.
Fonts (selection)
Scriptures in Hebrew are missing here
- with Regina F. Bendix (Ed.): A companion to folklore . Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 ISBN 978-1-4051-9499-0
- Material mobility versus concentric cosmology in the Sukkah: the house of the wandering jew or a ubiquitous temple? Things: religion and the question of materiality . 2012
- Ahasver. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 1: A-Cl. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-476-02501-2 , pp. 9-13.
- with Margalit Shilo , Ruth Kark : Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture . Brandeis University Press, 2008
- Martyr vs. martyr: the sacred language of violence . 2003
- Tales of the neighborhood: Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity . Berkeley: University of California Press. 2003. ISBN 0520928946
- Web of life: folklore and midrash in rabbinic literature Riḳmat ḥayim . Stanford, Calif., 2000 (en)
- with Shirley Kaufman , Tamar Hess: The defiant muse: Hebrew feminist poems from antiquity to the present . A bilingual anthology. 1999
- "Spinning threads of sand": riddles as images of loss in the Midrash on lamentations Untying the knot: on riddles and other enigmatic modes . 1996
- with David Dean Shulman : Untying the knot: on riddles and other enigmatic modes . New York, 1996
- with Alan Dundes (Ed.): Wandering Jew. Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986, ISBN 0-253-36340-3
- Proverbs in Israeli Folk Narratives: A structural semantic analysis . Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1982
Web links
- Literature by and about Galit Hasan-Rokem in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Galit Hasan-Rokem , at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin , 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ The maiden name of Galit Hasan-Rokem is (for the time being) not known.
- ↑ Freddie Rokem , at Hebbel am Ufer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasan-Rokem, Galit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish-Israeli folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |