# Mónica Szurmuk

**Mónica Szurmuk**, Senior Researcher, National Council for Science and Technological Research of Argentina (CONICET); Professor of Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional de San Martín.



## Articles by this author

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## [Berta Gerchunoff](/encyclopedia/article/gerchunoff-berta)

Berta Wainstein de Gerchunoff was an Argentine socialist, feminist, and later Zionist leader. As President of the Argentine branch of WIZO, she led an exponential growth of women’s Zionist commitments all over Latin America.