![]() ![]() I was very happy being a little English boy. I'd been turned into a little English boy. "On the other hand, there was my strange lack of curiosity. "It was a combination of my mother not looking backwards and liking to talk about the past, on the one hand," Stoppard explains. The playwright says his family's Jewish origins were never talked about. Then his mother remarried a man named Stoppard, who moved them to England where they assimilated completely. But the Japanese invaded, his father was killed and the family moved to India. Born Tomáš Sträussler in 1937 in what was then Czechoslovakia, his family fled the Nazis in 1938 and moved to Singapore. Stoppard is known for his wit, verbal dexterity and intellectually challenging work. His new play, Leopoldstadt, which opened Sunday on Broadway, is both an acknowledgement and personal excoriation, asking how for so long he could have ignored his family's history of suffering. All four of Tom Stoppard's grandparents died in the Holocaust, but he only learned about his Jewish roots in middle age. ![]()
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