George Jonas
| George Jonas | |
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Jonas in a 2008 interview
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June 15, 1935 Budapest, Hungary |
| Died | January 10, 2016 (aged 80) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer, producer and columnist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Notable works | By Persons Unknown (1977), Vengeance (1984) |
| Notable awards | 1978 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime book Member Order of Canada |
| Spouse | Sylvia Nemes (1960-1968 divorced) Barbara Amiel (1974–1979 divorced) Maya Cho (1986-2016, his death) |
| Children | Alexander Jonas (with Sylvia Nemes) b. 1964 |
| Relatives | Son of Dr. Georg M. Hübsch and Magda Hübsch (née Klug) |
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George Jonas, CM (June 15, 1935 – January 10, 2016) was a Hungarian-born Canadian writer, poet, and journalist. A self-described classical liberal, he authored 16 books, including the international bestseller Vengeance (1984), the story of an Israeli operation to kill the terrorists responsible for the 1972 Munich massacre. The book has been adapted for film twice, first as Sword of Gideon (1986), and more recently as Munich (2005).
Jonas was born in Budapest in 1935, the son of lawyer, composer, and former member of the Viennese State Orchestra, Dr. Georg M. Hübsch (1883-1972) and Magda Hübsch (née Klug; 1905-1997), Jonas was educated at the Lutheran Gymnasium between the years 1945 and 1954.
Jonas married his first wife, Sylvia (née Nemes) in 1960; their son, Alexander, was born in 1964. He married Barbara Amiel in 1974; they divorced in 1979. A practicing Jew, Amiel insisted they marry in a synagogue; Jonas, a secular Jew, had written that it was the first time he had been inside one.
Jonas third marriage was to Maya (née Cho), who was born in Korea.
Jonas and Amiel co-wrote By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter (1976), an account of the 1973 murder of Christine Demeter and the subsequent murder trial and conviction of her husband, Peter. Their work won the 1978 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime book.
He has also contributed to: the National Review, Saturday Review, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy Magazine, the Hungarian Review (Budapest) and The National Interest.
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