Pepe Eliaschev

José Ricardo Eliaschev (31 May 1945 – 18 November 2014), better known as Pepe Eliaschev, was an Argentine journalist and writer.^[1]

Pepe Eliaschev
Born	José Ricardo Eliaschev (1945-05-31)31 May 1945 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died	18 November 2014(2014-11-18) (aged 69) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Occupation(s)	Journalist, writer

The author of ten books, he worked as a journalist and was well known for interviewing world figures such as Muhammad Ali, Ted Kennedy, Jorge Rafael Videla, Raúl Alfonsín, José Mujica, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ernesto Sabato and Augusto Roa Bastos. In addition, he was director of Municipal Radio of Buenos Aires from 1989-91. His last radio show was Esto que pasa.^[2]

Personal life

Eliaschev was born on 31 May 1945 in Buenos Aires, the grandson of Jewish immigrants from Podolia (present-day Ukraine) and Kishinev (present-day Moldova) who arrived to Argentina in the early 20th century fleeing Czarist pogroms. ^{[citation needed]}

He died on 18 November 2014, aged 69, of pancreatic cancer.^[3] He is buried at the La Tablada Israelite Cemetery.^[4]