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Leopoldstadt is a play by Tom Stoppard telling the story of multiple generations of a single Jewish Austrian family over the course of several decades encompassing the Holocaust, starting in 1899 and ending in 1955. It deals with themes of the personal and the historical, cultural identity, and assimilation.

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