Galit Hasan-Rokem
Biographic Data
| ID | 712177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Galit Hasan-Rokem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Galit |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasan-Rokem |
| SIGNATURE | HASAN-ROKEM G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Specter of Ahasver
The Specter of Ahasver Galit Hasan-Rokem Georg Simmel's "The Stranger" (1908)1 opens not by formulating the concept of strangeness itself but with the conditional phrase "If wandering"—initially anchoring strangeness in wandering so naturally that an incidental mention suffices. Indeed, in the next sentence, Simmel predicates the definition of the stranger on the poetically expressed dynamic between coming today and leaving tomorrow, on one hand,…
Folklore in Antiquity
Folklore exists in all human groups, small and big. Since early modernity, scholars have provided various definitions of the phenomenon, but earlier texts may also reveal awareness and reflection on the specific character folklore. In this short article, we wish to explore and look into the various definitions and characterizations of folklore given by ancient writers from various times and cultures. We will try to draw a cultural map of awarenes…
A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
Daniel Boyarin has again written an important book pointing at a central issue in the critical study of Jewish culture. His earlier work, consisting of over ten brilliant volumes mainly on the Rabbinic literature of late antiquity, has radically changed the study of Talmudic Midrashic texts, and has exerted an unparalleled influence on his colleagues, students, and scholars worldwide. I count myself as one of the fortunate people who have had the…
A companion to folklore
A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts Examines the practices and theoretical approaches develop…
Ahasver-The Enigma of a Name
I TRULY WONDER whether David Daube's 1955 short article, or rather note, titled Ahasver would have successfully passed peer and editorial review at JQR 20 10.1 The article spans two pages and lacks footnotes. It suggests a thesis but does not prove its point. From my very first encounter with this text it indelibly captured my attention, and perhaps even more - my imagination.When asked to reflect on an article from the early decades of JQR, I wa…
Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture
Did Rabbinic Culture Conceive of the Category of Folk Narrative
The article addresses the question whether the late Antique Rabbinic texts disclose an awareness of the categories of folklore and folktale. Initially, the parallel and varied emergence of these categories in various intellectual traditions of modernity and post-modernity is presented with special reference to a new conceptual framework correlating the categories of magic, miracle and sorcery. Subsequently, the narrative traditions recounting the…
Jews as Postcards, or Postcards as Jews: Mobility in a Modern Genre
The picture postcard is a concrete expression of mobility in modern times. Their illustrations include many themes explicitly referring to travel, emigration and uprooting that will be highlighted in the article. As a cultural practice postcards in general may also serve as concrete indexes of the mobility of their documented senders and receivers. Postcards became very early objects of systematic collecting. Most of the Jewish postcards to be di…
Embarrassment and Riches
Embarrassment and Riches Galit Hasan-Rokem (bio) Keywords Galit Hasan-Rokem, Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud, Jesus of Nazareth, Talmud, Babylonia Peter Schäfer . Jesus in the Talmud. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 210. The historical information that Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehem, was a Jew has caused considerable embarrassment to both Jews and Christians. The latter's embarrassment is rooted in their …
Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture
This fascinating interdisciplinary collection of essays brings gender issues to the foreground in order to redress a profound imbalance in the historiography of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, and in the early years of the State of Israel. Although male discourse still dominates this field, some initial studies have begun to create an authentic and multifaceted Hebrew-Israeli voice by examining the activities and contributions of w…
Carl Schmitt and Ahasver. The Idea of the State and the Wandering Jew
In this article the cultural effects and the specific reverberations in Carl Schmitt’s work of two literary figures emerging in vastly different cultural contexts in the 16th century, Leviathan and the Wandering Jew, are analyzed using a pair of discursive concepts – political theology and Midrash. My aim is to show that whereas Schmitt was informed by the kind of stereotypical thinking embodied in the legendary and very popular figure of Ahasver…
Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge
Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge Galit Hasan-Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore Now, when the body seems to have been laid to rest, after the almost feverish attention by which it was addressed in the study of culture and literature during the nineties, it may be possible to approach it with relative composure. It is thus, less agitated by the once ticklish, at other times painful, touch of interpretative endeav…
Peeglitagusel maal. Kreeklased muinas-heebrea rahvakirjanduses
A number of Hebrew and Aramaic riddles or enigmatic tales can really be understood only when juxtaposed with certain puns and word plays in another language, namely Greek. It is important to mention that Greek became the common language of the Middle East after the conquests of Alexander and the growing domination of Hellenistic culture in the wake of his rule, throughout the periods of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic dynasties in the area. Unlike phi…
Martyr vs. Martyr The Sacred Language of Violence
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Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature
Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, femin…
Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle-a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand …
Folk Religions in Modern Israel: Sacred Space in the Holy Land
Israel is a country of many cultures and languages and of several religions. The majority of the population adheres to the Jewish religion. The Moslem and the Christian religions come next in size, in that order. Similarly to many other countries in the region, religion fills a more central role in the public sphere of Israel than in most Western countries. It also influences the private sphere immensely, as for example in the matter of marriages…
Riddles and Enigmas
Untying The Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand…
Untying the knot: On Riddlesand Other Enigmatic Modes
The Wandering Jew: Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend
The Rhetoric of Intimacy - the Rhetoric of the Sacred
No abstract available
"Hasan-Rokem and Dundes's "The Wandering Jew
Jews as Postcards, or Postcards as Jews: Mobility in a Modern Genre
The picture postcard is a concrete expression of mobility in modern times. Their illustrations include many themes explicitly referring to travel, emigration and uprooting that will be highlighted in the article. As a cultural practice postcards in general may also serve as concrete indexes of the mobility of their documented senders and receivers. Postcards became very early objects of systematic collecting. Most of the Jewish postcards to be di…
Martyr vs. Martyr The Sacred Language of Violence
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"Hasan-Rokem and Dundes's "The Wandering Jew
The Rhetoric of Intimacy - the Rhetoric of the Sacred
No abstract available
The Wandering Jew: Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend
Untying The Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand…
Untying the knot: On Riddlesand Other Enigmatic Modes
Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle-a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand …
Folk Religions in Modern Israel: Sacred Space in the Holy Land
Israel is a country of many cultures and languages and of several religions. The majority of the population adheres to the Jewish religion. The Moslem and the Christian religions come next in size, in that order. Similarly to many other countries in the region, religion fills a more central role in the public sphere of Israel than in most Western countries. It also influences the private sphere immensely, as for example in the matter of marriages…
Riddles and Enigmas
Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature
Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, femin…
Peeglitagusel maal. Kreeklased muinas-heebrea rahvakirjanduses
A number of Hebrew and Aramaic riddles or enigmatic tales can really be understood only when juxtaposed with certain puns and word plays in another language, namely Greek. It is important to mention that Greek became the common language of the Middle East after the conquests of Alexander and the growing domination of Hellenistic culture in the wake of his rule, throughout the periods of the Seleucid and Ptolemaic dynasties in the area. Unlike phi…
Martyr vs. Martyr The Sacred Language of Violence
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Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge
Between Narrating Bodies and Carnal Knowledge Galit Hasan-Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore Now, when the body seems to have been laid to rest, after the almost feverish attention by which it was addressed in the study of culture and literature during the nineties, it may be possible to approach it with relative composure. It is thus, less agitated by the once ticklish, at other times painful, touch of interpretative endeav…
Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture
This fascinating interdisciplinary collection of essays brings gender issues to the foreground in order to redress a profound imbalance in the historiography of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine, and in the early years of the State of Israel. Although male discourse still dominates this field, some initial studies have begun to create an authentic and multifaceted Hebrew-Israeli voice by examining the activities and contributions of w…
Carl Schmitt and Ahasver. The Idea of the State and the Wandering Jew
In this article the cultural effects and the specific reverberations in Carl Schmitt’s work of two literary figures emerging in vastly different cultural contexts in the 16th century, Leviathan and the Wandering Jew, are analyzed using a pair of discursive concepts – political theology and Midrash. My aim is to show that whereas Schmitt was informed by the kind of stereotypical thinking embodied in the legendary and very popular figure of Ahasver…
Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics, and Culture
Did Rabbinic Culture Conceive of the Category of Folk Narrative
The article addresses the question whether the late Antique Rabbinic texts disclose an awareness of the categories of folklore and folktale. Initially, the parallel and varied emergence of these categories in various intellectual traditions of modernity and post-modernity is presented with special reference to a new conceptual framework correlating the categories of magic, miracle and sorcery. Subsequently, the narrative traditions recounting the…
Jews as Postcards, or Postcards as Jews: Mobility in a Modern Genre
The picture postcard is a concrete expression of mobility in modern times. Their illustrations include many themes explicitly referring to travel, emigration and uprooting that will be highlighted in the article. As a cultural practice postcards in general may also serve as concrete indexes of the mobility of their documented senders and receivers. Postcards became very early objects of systematic collecting. Most of the Jewish postcards to be di…
Embarrassment and Riches
Embarrassment and Riches Galit Hasan-Rokem (bio) Keywords Galit Hasan-Rokem, Peter Schäfer, Jesus in the Talmud, Jesus of Nazareth, Talmud, Babylonia Peter Schäfer . Jesus in the Talmud. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv + 210. The historical information that Jesus of Nazareth, born in Bethlehem, was a Jew has caused considerable embarrassment to both Jews and Christians. The latter's embarrassment is rooted in their …
Ahasver-The Enigma of a Name
I TRULY WONDER whether David Daube's 1955 short article, or rather note, titled Ahasver would have successfully passed peer and editorial review at JQR 20 10.1 The article spans two pages and lacks footnotes. It suggests a thesis but does not prove its point. From my very first encounter with this text it indelibly captured my attention, and perhaps even more - my imagination.When asked to reflect on an article from the early decades of JQR, I wa…
A companion to folklore
A Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe. An unprecedented collection of original, state of the art essays on folklore authored by international experts Examines the practices and theoretical approaches develop…
A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
Daniel Boyarin has again written an important book pointing at a central issue in the critical study of Jewish culture. His earlier work, consisting of over ten brilliant volumes mainly on the Rabbinic literature of late antiquity, has radically changed the study of Talmudic Midrashic texts, and has exerted an unparalleled influence on his colleagues, students, and scholars worldwide. I count myself as one of the fortunate people who have had the…
Folklore in Antiquity
Folklore exists in all human groups, small and big. Since early modernity, scholars have provided various definitions of the phenomenon, but earlier texts may also reveal awareness and reflection on the specific character folklore. In this short article, we wish to explore and look into the various definitions and characterizations of folklore given by ancient writers from various times and cultures. We will try to draw a cultural map of awarenes…
The Specter of Ahasver
The Specter of Ahasver Galit Hasan-Rokem Georg Simmel's "The Stranger" (1908)1 opens not by formulating the concept of strangeness itself but with the conditional phrase "If wandering"—initially anchoring strangeness in wandering so naturally that an incidental mention suffices. Indeed, in the next sentence, Simmel predicates the definition of the stranger on the poetically expressed dynamic between coming today and leaving tomorrow, on one hand,…
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