The historian Judith Laikin Elkin Is best known as the founder of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA). She was the author of the foundational text The Jews of Latin America as well as research guides and two memoirs.

Tamara Kamenszain, born in 1947, was a highly regarded Argentine poet. She was also a literary critic especially interested in avant-garde poetry and in questions of gender in literary expression. Women’s experience and Jewish identity are among the themes of her poetry.