Bronfman family

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The Bronfman family is a Canadian family, known for its extensive business holdings.

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

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

Early history

The name

tobacco farmer Yechiel Bronfman (aka Ekiel Bronfman; 16 November 1855 - 24 December 1919) and his wife, Mindel (née Elman; 25 May 1863 - 11 Nov 1918), who emigrated from Moldova to Canada with their children in 1889, escaping the anti-Semitic pogroms of Imperial Russia.[1][8]

In addition to Samuel Bronfman, Yechiel and Mindel's children at the time of emigration included Abe (15 March 1882, Russia - 16 March 1968, Safety Harbor, Florida), Harry (15 March 1886, Russia - 12 November 1963, Montreal, QC), and Laura Bronfman (1 Jan 1887, Russia - 1976); in total they had 8 children.[1]

The family settled at a homestead near Wapella, Saskatchewan, but soon moved to Brandon, Manitoba. In 1903, the family borrowed money to buy a hotel (the Anglo-American Hotel) in Emerson, Manitoba, which turned out to be profitable due to railway construction. In 1906, the family moved to Winnipeg. With the advent of Prohibition in Canada, Samuel and his brothers turned their energy toward selling mail-order liquor.[1][8] Following the government's crack-down on the business, the brothers took another route: As it was still legal to sell alcohol as medicine, the brothers rebranded their liquor using names like "Liver & Kidney Cure", "Dandy Bracer-Liver", and "Rock-a-bye Cough-Cure".[8] Samuel took control of the business after prohibition came to an end in the United States, and was known as "Mr. Sam".[8]

Business and philanthropy

According to

distilled beverage business during American prohibition through founding the Seagram Company, and who later became president of the Canadian Jewish Congress (1939-62).[1][3]

Canadian Center for Architecture.[1]

For years, Seagram was run by Samuel and Saidye's sons,

Historica Foundation of Canada and Heritage Minutes, as well as chairman and principal owner of the Montreal Expos.[1]

The youngest daughter of Edgar Sr.,

Brookfield Asset Management).[1]

In 1994, the Bronfman family in collaboration with McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, supported the establishment of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC), a nonpartisan Canadian research institute.[11]: 3 

In 1922, Samuel's younger sister, Rose Bronfman (3 February 1898, Manitoba - 31 May 1988), was a

Russian Jewish immigrant, who moved to Manitoba in 1893[13] - and the couple remained notable philanthropists in Winnipeg.[14] The University of Manitoba named its health sciences faculty and its College of Medicine in Rady's honor.[12] The Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, and its Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, are named after the Rady family in honor of its largest donor, Ernest S. Rady (b. 1937), Rose and Max's son.[15]

Jeremy and Eli Bronfman founded Lincoln Avenue Capital, a real estate investor and developer in affordable housing.[16][17]

Works or publications

Works about the Bronfman Family

The novel Solomon Gursky Was Here, by Mordecai Richler, has been described as a thinly-veiled account of the Bronfman family.[8]

Works by the Bronfman family

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Curtis, Christopher G. "Bronfman Family". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  2. ^ "Museum of Jewish Montreal". imjm.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  3. ^ a b The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Seagram Company Ltd.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 December 2013. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Weiss, Steven I. (March 11, 2014). "For Centuries, Jews Ruled Poland's Liquor Trade. Why Was That Legacy Forgotten?". Tablet. Retrieved April 10, 2016. Even the Bronfmans, the world's most famous liquor magnates, couldn't tie their successes in booze to the legacy of Polish Jewry's tavern-keeping: They were originally tobacco farmers from Bessarabia.
  5. ^ a b Popper, Nathaniel (April 15, 2005). "Keeping Alive a Philanthropic Family Tradition". The Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  6. ^ a b Kandell, Jonathan (22 December 2013). "Edgar M. Bronfman, Who Brought Elegance and Expansion to Seagram, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  7. ^ "Bronfman Name Meaning & Bronfman Family History at Ancestry.ca®". www.ancestry.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Brink, Graham (2019-07-03). "10 things: Get to know the Bronfman family's rich and storied history". Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  9. ^ "Clare Bronfman sentenced to almost 7 years in prison for offences in NXIVM cult". Archived from the original on 2020-10-01.
  10. ^ "The Heiresses and the Cult". Vanity Fair. 2010-10-13. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  11. ^ Who pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness (PDF). 2018 Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC). Montreal, Quebec. February 23, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
  12. ^ a b "Max Rady College of Medicine | University of Manitoba". umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  13. ^ a b "UM Today | A Legacy 95 Years in the Making". Archived from the original on 2018-01-04.
  14. ^ "The Rose and Max Rady Jewish Community Center | Jewish Federation of Winnipeg". www.jewishwinnipeg.org. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  15. ^ "About Us". www.rchsd.org. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  16. ^ Madans Welk, Hannah (November 16, 2020). "Lincoln Avenue Capital Issues Wake-Up Call for Affordable Housing". Los Angeles Business Journal.
  17. ^ Henerson, Evan (May 27, 2020). "Building Homes, Changing Lives: Lincoln Avenue Capital's Jeremy and Eli Bronfman's Vision for Affordable Housing". Jewish Journal.
  18. ^ Prial, Frank J. (June 25, 2006). "'The Bronfmans' by Nicholas Faith: Whiskey Chasers". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  19. ^ Corelli, Adam (February 14, 1993). "Legacy of a bootlegger: Canada's giant Edper conglomerate, created by the outcast cousins of the Bronfman drinks dynasty, is in trouble and may be slipping into unfamiliar hands". The Independent (UK). Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  20. OCLC 496911520
    – via WorldCat.
  21. ^ Desjardins, Sylvain-Jacques (March 25, 2004). "Seagram Building reborn as Martlet House". McGill Reporter. 36 (2003–2004). Retrieved 25 December 2013.

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