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It is, indeed, a deeply personal dare from Stoppard himself, who never knew of his own Jewishness until his 50s, when a previously unknown relative made contact. With Leopoldstadt, the playwright declares his own heritage in first-rate, epic, and urgent fashion, seemingly atoning for lost time. Forgetting one’s ancestors, he suggests, is its own tragedy: “It’s like a second death,” one character says, “to lose your name in a family album.”
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