{"product_id":"leopoldstadt","title":"Leopoldstadt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eBy Tom Stoppard \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, a city humming with artistic and intellectual excitement. Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama centers on Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptized Jew married to Catholic Gretl, whose extended family convene at their fashionable apartment on Christmas Day in 1899. Yet by the time the play closes, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, which stole the lives of 65,000 Austrian Jews alone. From one of today’s most acclaimed playwrights, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLeopoldstadt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a human and heartbreaking drama of literary brilliance, historical verisimilitude, and powerful emotion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e101 pages\u003cbr\u003eGrove Press, 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780802157713     \u003cbr\u003ePlay, Austrian History\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42787862216872,"sku":"9780802157713","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Leopoldstadt.jpg?v=1664740785","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/leopoldstadt","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}