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Ingrid Schiro, « A Long Night’s Journey into Day: Matt Cohen’s The Spanish Doctor », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10670/1.8y18pl
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Matt Cohen’s The Spanish Doctor has been misconceived as a mere cloak-and-dagger novel. Whereas it certainly is an adventure story designed to entertain, its main interest lies in the exploration of the theme of Jewishness. Set in late medieval Spain, the protagonist’s journey towards his own Jewish identity is largely determined by the specific historical situation chosen. The author thus studies a particular time in Jewish history and, through the obvious and continuous allusions to the Holocaust, exemplifies the sad repetitiveness of Jewish history.