Tom Stoppard, the prolific British playwright whose late-in-life discovery of his Jewish roots inspired his 2020 play “ Leopoldstadt ,” died at his home in Dorset, England, on Nov. 29. He was 88.

His many works include “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “The Real Thing” and “Arcadia.” He also co-authored the screenplay for the 1998 film “Shakespeare in Love,” for which he won an Academy Award, and worked on the films “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) and “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” (2005).

Born Tomáš Sträussler in Czechoslovakia in 1937, Stoppard fled the Nazis with his parents and brother to Singapore in 1938. However, the family was unsettled again when the Japanese invaded in 1942, his father was killed and the family moved to India. His mother rem

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