The Folklore Roundtable
presents
Material Mobility vs. Concentric Cosmology:
The House of the Wandering Jew and the Jew as Postcard
with
Professor Galit Hasan-Rokem
Diller Family Visiting Professor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Galit Hasan-Rokem is the Max and Margarete Grunwald Professor of Folklore at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She served as head of the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University, as president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research and she is a founding member of the editorial board of Palestine-Israel Journal. Among her many articles and books is: Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 2003), and she is also a published poet.

cosponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities