Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard · Arts & Literature
British playwright ('Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', 'Arcadia')
1937, Zlín, Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia · India · United Kingdom
Tom Stoppard is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — British playwright ('Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', 'Arcadia')
Stoppard is a British playwright whose intellectually dazzling works—'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', 'Arcadia' and 'The Coast of Utopia'—weave philosophy, science and wordplay. Born Tomáš Sträussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, into a Jewish family; all four of his grandparents were Jewish and several relatives were murdered in the Holocaust, a history he explored in his late play 'Leopoldstadt'. He is among the most honoured dramatists in the English language.
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British playwright ('Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead', 'Arcadia')
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Literature
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