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December 26, 2023

Tom Stoppard Realizes His Audience Understood Something about “Leopoldstadt” That He Didn’t

Who knew a play about anti-Semitism would be so timely?

Tom Stoppard’s much-acclaimed Leopoldstadt tells the story of a Viennese Jewish family as it contends with assimilation, intermarriage, anti-Semitism, and, eventually the Holocaust. Since writing it, Stoppard reports having lost whatever faith he might have had in the “universal spirit” of humanity:

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