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He was raised as a Catholic, and was only told about his Jewish origin when he was seven years old. His father Kornél was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, but his mother and his brother Paul Tabori (writer and psychical researcher), managed to escape the Nazis.
Jul 24, 2007 · Born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Tabori fled to London in 1936, where he started working for the British Broadcasting Corp., and became a British citizen.
Jul 25, 2007 · Hungarian-born playwright and director George Tabori, a legend in Germany's postwar theater world whose avant-garde works confronted anti-Semitism, has died in Berlin, the Berliner Ensemble...
Tabori was born into a Jewish family and raised in relative comfort, ostensibly as a Roman Catholic. He had left Eastern Europe before Hitler's rise to power and was living in England as a naturalized British citizen when World War II began.
Jul 24, 2007 · Born into a Jewish family in Budapest on May 24, 1914, Tabori went to Germany as a young man, but had to fleeto London in 1936 ahead of the Nazis. He worked for the BBC and became a British...
Jul 25, 2007 · Assistant to Brecht, scriptwriter to Hitchcock and lover to Garbo - Tabori's astonishing career was entwined with the history of 20th-century drama.
Jewish and Christian symbolism also inform Tabori's Holocaust plays. In The Cannibals the ritual meal is referred to as a "black mass," with 12 diners, reminiscent of the 12 apostles at the Last Supper and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
