Jacqueline Laznow is a Research Associate at the Folklore Research Center and holds the position of academic senior librarian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a member of the Israeli Association of Jewish Latin American Researchers.  Her research focuses on Jewish women’s ethnohistory, folklore, gender, and migration studies. She has published widely in academic journals on various facets of Jewish-Argentine women’s daily lives and on the life stories of Israeli women ordained as rabbis. Her most recent publications examine the influence of Jewish-American librarians on Israeli librarianship and Jewish women’s quest for equality during the Yishuv period in Eretz Israel.