Next Year in Argentina

Next Year in Argentina (original title El Año Que Viene en... Argentina) is a 2005 documentary about diaspora Jews, who have either decided to remain in Argentina or move to Israel. Jorge Gurvich and Shlomo Slutzky, Argentine-Israeli filmmakers, travel back to Argentina—exploring questions of identity and the meaning of a homeland as they speak with friends and family who have stayed behind. “Next year in Jerusalem,” goes the prayer that Jews have been chanting through two thousand years of exile. Yet nearly 60 years after the founding of the Jewish State, some who’ve emigrated to the Holy Land still long for the home they left behind — even if home meant poverty and persecution, as it did for many Argentine Jews. “I always raise the...