Tom Stoppard Imagines His Family’s Mostly Forgotten Past
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Its like a second death for your name to be forgotten in a family album, a grandmother reflects. The genealogical tree that descends on a scrim between the first few scenes is a kind of holy record. A philosophical dialogue between brothers-in-law establishes their turn-of-the-century milieu and its crosscurrents of Jewish identity. A Jew can be a great composer and even become the toast of the town, he says....