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Edgar Bronfman Sr.
Canadian-American businessman (1929–2013)
Edgar Miles Bronfman (June 20, 1929 – December 21, 2013) was a Canadian-American businessman. He worked for his family's distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman is especially remembered[by whom?] for initiating diplomacy with the Soviet Union, which resulted in legitimizing the Hebrew language in the USSR, and contributed to Soviet Jews being legally able to practice their religion, as well as immigrate to Israel.
Biography
[edit]Bronfman was born into the Jewish-CanadianBronfman family in Montreal,[1][2][3] the son of Samuel Bronfman, a Russian who had immigrated to Canada with his parents, and Saidye Rosner Bronfman, a native of Manitoba born to Eastern European immigrants. They raised their four children in Montreal.
In 1925, Sam and his brother, Allan, built the family's first liquor distillery near Montreal. They later bought a distillery owned by the Seagram family and incorporated the name. The U.S. subsidiary of the Seagram Company Ltd. opened in 1933; Edgar Bronfman would later take charge of the subsidiary.[4]
Bronfman had two older sisters: archit
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Bronfman family
Canadian business family
The Bronfman family is a Canadian family, known for its extensive business holdings.[1] It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman (1889–1971), the most influential Canadian Jew of the mid-20th century,[2] who made a fortune in the alcoholic distilled beverage business during American prohibition, including the sale of liquor through organized crime, through founding the Seagram Company, and who later became president of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1939–62).[1][3]
The family is of Russian-Jewish and Romanian-Jewish ancestry; the patriarch, Yechiel (Ekiel) Bronfman, was originally a tobacco farmer from Bessarabia.[4] According to The New York Times staff reporter Nathaniel Popper, the Bronfman family is "perhaps the single largest force in the Jewish charitable world".[5][6]
Family tree
[edit]- Samuel Miles Bronfman (1889–1971), m. Jun 20, 1922, Winnipeg to Saidye Rosner (1896–1995)
- Phyllis Barbara Bronfman Lambert (b. 1927), m. 1949–1954 to Jean Lambert
- Edgar Miles Bronfman, Sr. (1929–2013), m. 1953–1973 to Ann Margaret Loeb, daughter of John Langeloth Loeb Sr. and Frances Lehman; m. 1973–1974 to Carolyn Townshend; m. Rita "Georgianna" Eil
- Samuel Miles Bronfman (1889–1971), m. Jun 20, 1922, Winnipeg to Saidye Rosner (1896–1995)