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T HE J E WI SH Q U AR TE R L Y R E VIE W , Vol. 111, No. 4 (Fall 2021) 507–511 Américo Castro’s “Prob lem” ILAN STAVANS “¡ Q UE NO ME ENTIENDEN !”— they don’t get me. When the distinguished linguist, literary critic, and historian Américo Castro (1885–1972), by then the Emory L. Ford Professor of Spanish at Princeton University , released his seminal book The Structure of Spanish History in 1940, he ar- gued for a thorough reconsideration of Iberian civilization. His thesis was that Spain didn’ t coalesce as a nation in Roman times, nor during the Vi- sigoth domination, but became what it is today as a result of La Conviven- cia. Castro was the first to publicly use the term. He portrayed La Convivencia as a period of harmonious coexistence in the Iberian Peninsula of the three major Abrahamic religions—Chris tian ity, Judaism, and Islam— that stretched from the Umayyad conquest in the eighth century to the beginning of the fifteenth. It was at that point, he believed, when el carácter español, the nation’s personality, emerged as a historical fixture. La Con- vivencia brought into Spain an “expresividad subjetiva,” a
Jewish Quarterly Review – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Jan 13, 2022
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