The Jewish Gauchos () is a 1975 Argentine film based on the novel Los Gauchos JudÃÂos (The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas in its English version) by journalist and writer Alberto Gerchunoff. The story centers on a large group of Jews who escaped from Imperial Russia to Argentina to start a new life near the eastern border of Entre Rios province at the beginning of the 19th century.