Galit Hasan-Rokem, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Galit Hasan-Rokem

Israeli poet

Date of Birth: 29-Aug-1945

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Profession: writer, poet, linguist, literary theorist

Nationality: Israel

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Galit Hasan-Rokem (Hebrew: ???? ???-?????, 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 (2012), 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".