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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]
- Bronfman Origins in Canada
- Samuel Bronfman and Seagram
- Saidye Rosner Bronfman
- Aileen Mindel (Minda) Bronfman de Gunzburg
- Phyllis Lambert
- The Next Generation at Seagram: Edgar and Charles Bronfman
- Charles Bronfman
- Diversification and Sale of Seagram to Vivendi: Edgar Miles Bronfman Jr.
- Edward and Peter Bronfman
Mindel and Yechiel Bronfman immigrated to Canada with their children in 1889, fleeing the anti-Semitic pogroms of czarist Russia. The Bronfman family settled at a homestead near Wapella, Saskatchewan, but soon moved to Brandon, Manitoba, where Yechiel started a wood-fuel delivery business with his three eldest sons, Abe (born 15 March 1882 in Russi...
Prohibition-era laws around alcohol sales made it challenging for importers and exporters, and when Samuel Bronfman’s brother-in-law was murdered after an encounter with rum runners in 1922, the Bronfman brothers considered leaving the liquor trade. They established the Bronfman Family Trust with their accumulated funds and divided up its shares. I...
Samuel Bronfman’s wife, Saidye Rosner (1896–1995), played an important role in the Jewish community while the Seagram business flourished. Like Samuel, Saidye came from a Jewish family that had fled persecution in Russia to settle in Winnipeg. She studied at Havergal Ladies’ College and the University of Manitoba, both in Winnipeg. Before meeting S...
Samuel and Saidye Bronfman’s four children continued their parents’ legacy of philanthropy. Their eldest daughter, Aileen Mindel (Minda) Bronfman de Gunzburg (born 4 March 1925; died 1 July 1985) attended Smith College (Northampton, MA) and graduated from Columbia University (New York, NY) with a master’s degree in history and political science. Sh...
Minda’s younger sister, Phyllis Lambert (born 24 January 1927 in Montreal), became a celebrated architect and advocate for the cultural importance of architecture. Between 1954 and 1958, Lambert was director of planning for the Seagram Building in New York, an influential example of modern urban architecture designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and...
After Samuel Bronfman’s death in 1971, his eldest son, Edgar Miles Bronfman (born 20 June 1929 in Montreal; died 21 December 2013 in New York, NY), became chairman and chief executive officer of Seagram and ran its US operations from New York. In 1981, Edgar became president of the World Jewish Congress and was instrumental in the 1997 deal that sa...
Samuel and Saidye’s youngest son, Charles Rosner Bronfman (born 27 June 1931 in Montreal), directed Seagram’s Canadian business. He holds dual Canadian and American citizenship. Charles joined the company in 1951 and became president of Canadian operations in 1975. He became the company’s co-chairman in 1986 and held that position until 2000, when ...
An American citizen, Edgar Miles Bronfman Jr. (born 16 May 1955 in New York, NY) spent time in Hollywood as a script writer and producer before joining Seagramin 1982. He became president of the company in 1989 and replaced his father, Edgar Sr., as CEO in 1994. Edgar Jr. was the main force behind Seagram’s expansion into the entertainment industry...
Samuel Bronfman’s nephews, Edward (born 1 November 1927 in Montreal; died 4 April 2005 in Toronto) and Peter (born 2 October 1929 in Montreal; died 1 December 1996 in Toronto), became financiers in their own right. The sons of Allan Bronfman (born 21 December 1895 in Brandon, Manitoba; died 26 March 1980 in Montreal), they were excluded from Seagra...
Jul 3, 2019 · The family of Stephen Bronfman, the Montreal point man in the deal to split home games with the Tampa Bay Rays, has a rich history.
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Oct 25, 2016 · Now in his mid-80s Bronfman looks back at his life as a billionaire businessman and owner of the Montreal Expos in his new memoir, Distilled: A Memoir of Family, Seagram, Baseball and...
Mar 5, 2007 · Sam’s son, Edgar Bronfman Snr., was utterly different from his father. Handsome, indulged, a multi-married Playboy of the Western World while his father had been the classic Jewish family man, was happiest in London, Monte Carlo or Rome rather than Montreal or Manitoba.
Charles Bronfman, PC CC (born June 27, 1931) is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist [1] and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by Forbes as the 1,217th wealthiest person in the world.
Feb 6, 2020 · Family feud: Peter and Edward Bronfman, nephews of Seagram founder Samuel Bronfman, started the company that eventually became Brookfield. The brothers started the company in 1952 after their uncle locked them out of Seagram’s offices and forced them to sell their shares for less than they were worth.
