When the Jews of 18th-Century Prague Expressed Pride in Their Country
A parade that could give Macy’s a run for its money.
December 1, 2025
Remembering a genius and a Jew.
Tom Stoppard, perhaps the greatest English-language playwright and screenwriter of our times, died on Saturday at the age of eighty-eight. A native of what was then Czechoslovakia, Stoppard only realized that his parents were Jews later in life. Years after the revelation, a comment by a fictional character accusing Stoppard, Madeleine Albright, and other people of Jewish descent of running away from their past out of a desire to “play it safe” moved him to reconsider.
A parade that could give Macy’s a run for its money.
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Remembering a genius and a Jew.
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Defending its borders by taking the fight to the enemy.
Tom Stoppard, perhaps the greatest English-language playwright and screenwriter of our times, died on Saturday at the age of eighty-eight. A native of what was then Czechoslovakia, Stoppard only realized that his parents were Jews later in life. Years after the revelation, a comment by a fictional character accusing Stoppard, Madeleine Albright, and other people of Jewish descent of running away from their past out of a desire to “play it safe” moved him to reconsider.
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