"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 contribu ..."
"Hasidism, a Jewish religious movement that originated in Poland in the eighteenth century, today counts over 700,000 adherents, primarily in the U.S., Israel, and the UK. Popular and scholarly interest in Hasidic Judaism and Hasidic Jews is growing, but there is no textbook dedicated to research methods in the field, nor sources for the history of Hasidism have been properly recognized. Studying Hasidism, edited by Marcin Wodzinski, an ..."
"Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the questio ..."
"In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Gensberg bring together a collection of fifty-three folktales celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) at the University of Haifa. Established by the folklorist Dov Noy in the 1950s, the IFA is the only archive of its kind in Israel and serves as a center for knowledge and information concerning t ..."
"Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of "ethnoliterature" across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the questio ..."
"Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered Galit Hasan-Rokem Ithamar
Gruenwald ... Gruenwald focuses on the genre category of “legend” as a central
problem in Ginzberg's conceptualization of the corpus, since it according to him
isolates the materials in a literary, textual world and disconnects them from their
contexts in the belief ... Sabel, along with his mentor Andreas Kilcher, has
commenced a project to publish the manuscrip ..."
Web of Life(1st Edition) Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences) by Galit Hasan-Rokem, Batya Stein Paperback, 287 Pages, Published 2000 by Stanford UniversityPress ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3227-7, ISBN: 0-8047-3227-2
"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 product ..."
Untying the Knot On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes by Galit Hasan-Rokem, David Shulman 344 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford UniversityPress ISBN-13: 978-0-19-535632-8, ISBN: 0-19-535632-2
"But the disenchantment holds true in a wider sense: not only are the riddles
arbitrarily pushed toward solutions that ... components present in this
metariddling tale: (1) an initial difficulty in speaking, or an implicit privileging of
silence, as a test of ... of course); (3) the progression (in the answers put forward
by the princess) from clothing/disguising through healing to ... questions—
actually quotations from Panini's eni ..."
"At the beginning of the twentieth century, many perceived American Jewry to be in a state of crisis as traditions of faith faced modern sensibilities. Published beginning in 1909, Rabbi and Professor Louis Ginzberg's seven-volume "The Legends of the Jews" appeared at this crucial time and offered a landmark synthesis of aggadah from classical Rabbinic literature and ancient folk legends from a number of cultures. It remains a hugely inf ..."
Untying the Knot(1st Edition) On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes by Galit Hasan-Rokem, David Dean Shulman Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 1996 by Oxford UniversityPress ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510856-9, ISBN: 0-19-510856-6
"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 ..."
"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 u ..."
The Wandering Jew Essays in the interpretation of a Christian legend by Alan Dundes, Galit Hasan-Rokem Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1986 by Indiana UniversityPress ISBN-13: 978-0-253-36340-4, ISBN: 0-253-36340-3
Tales of the Neighborhood(1st Edition) Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity by Galit Hasan-Rokem Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23453-6, ISBN: 0-520-23453-7
"In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. F ..."
"... and University Press ofNew England for its help in publishing the volume. Prof.
Ruth Kark (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Prof. Margalit Shilo (Bar-Ilan
University) Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
October 2007 The Hebrew transliteration in this volume is based, in general, on
the system of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. Authors were permitted to use alternate
spellings. J Constructing the Historica ..."
Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies Tales of the Neighborhood : Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity 4 by Galit Hasan-Rokem 221 Pages, Published 2003 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92894-7, ISBN: 0-520-92894-6
"In addition I have been privileged to enjoy the rich collections at the editorial
offices of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens, a project of the German Academy of
Science in Göttingen. I thank especially ... For the first half of the tale see Elisheva
Schoenfeld's article, “Bäume für die nächste Generation (AaTh 928),”
Enzyklopädie des Märchens (1977), 1: 1391–93. The article reflects ...
frameworks. Hasan-Rokem, “ 'The Snake in the We ..."
"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 contribu ..."
The Defiant Muse(1st Edition) Hebrew Feminist Poems from Antiquity: A Bilingual Anthology (The Defiant Muse Series) (Hebrew Edition) by Shirley Kaufman, Tamar Hess, Galit Hasan-Rokem, Galit Hasam-Rokem Library, 272 Pages, Published 1999 by The Feminist Press At Cuny ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-223-5, ISBN: 1-55861-223-8
"Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, and ..."
"Each bilingual volume in The Defiant Muse series includes 60 to 80 poems by both well-known and rediscovered poets, selected on the basis of their individual merit and as illustrations of the evolution of feminist thought and feeling. Reflecting their own cultural milieus as well as enduring themes, the poets write of love and friendship, revolution and peace, religion, nature, isolation, work, and family. The Dutch, French, German, ..."
"With LiZ Locke, primary editor, and Theresa Vaughan, she is co-editor of the
Eneyelopeolia of Women's Follelore anol Follzlife (Greenwood Press, 2 vols.,
2008). She has published in Signs: ]onrnal of Women in Culture dnd Society;
pdrdlldx; ..."
"In fact the first doctoral dissertation ever ratified at the Hebrew University (1936)
was Raphael Patai's investigation of miracle stories about rain – a central theme
in the lives of communities in arid areas – in the Hebrew Bible and the Talmudic-
midrashic literature (Patai 1938). Patai's thesis was heavily influenced by James
Frazer's theory and method. However, Patai's experiences at the Hebrew
University were to a great extent ..."