Galit Hasan-Rokem

Hasan-Rokem worked across folklorist, poet, translator, literary scholar and Judaic scholar. This article rests on 20 published texts and 9 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

• Honorific Prefix — Professor • Name — Galit Hasan-Rokem • Native Name — גלית חזן־רוקם • Born — 29 August 1945 • Birthplace — Helsinki, Finland • Education — Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD) • Employer — Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Known for — Paremiology, folklore in Israel • Spouse — Freddie Rokem • Children — 3

Galit Hasan-Rokem was born in 1945 in Helsinki to Jewish parents who were also natives of Finland. 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. After attaining her undergraduate degree, she participated in an exchange program at the University of Helsinki's Department of Finnish and Comparative Folklore, where she studied under Professors Matti Kuusi and Lauri Honko, solidifying her desire to become a folklorist. She earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1978, studying under Professor Dov Noy. She became a full professor of folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984.

Hasan-Rokem's research interests include proverbs, folklore and culture of the Middle East, and folklore genres and narratives, including folklore in rabbinic literature. She has produced several major works studying proverbs in Israel and the proverbs of Georgian Jews in Israel. Hasan-Rokem displays a "conscious feminism" in her work. Her interdisciplinary approach to folklore, including the feminist aspects of her research, are frequently quoted by other authors. Books and other works by Hasan-Rokem have been published in more than eight languages.

Hasan-Rokem is a published poet and translator of poetry. She has produced three volumes of poetry in Hebrew, some of which has appeared in translation. She translated a selection of Swedish-language poems by Finnish poet Edith Södergran (1892–1923) into Hebrew for her second book of poetry, Voice Training: Poems (1998). In 2013 she translated the complete poems of Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer into Hebrew.

Hasan-Rokem is a founding editor of the Palestine–Israel Journal and a long-time pro-Palestinian activist. She is a strong supporter of the two-state solution and the division of Jerusalem into the capital of both Israel and a Palestinian state. 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.

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.

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Galit Hasan-Rokem was born on 29 August 1945 in Helsinki. Hasan-Rokem held the nationality of Israel. Hasan-Rokem was educated at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Hasan-Rokem worked as folklorist, poet, translator and literary scholar, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them Judaic scholar. Hasan-Rokem worked in Hebrew.