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The Bronfman family is a Canadian Jewish family.[1] It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman (1889โ€“1971), who made a fortune in the alcoholic distilled beverage business during the 20th century through the family's Seagram Company.[2]

 

The family is of Russian Jewish and Romanian Jewish ancestry; "they were originally tobacco farmers from Bessarabia".[3] According to New York Times staff reporter, Nathaniel Popper, the Bronfman family is "perhaps the single largest force in the Jewish charitable world."[4][5]

 

Family tree

Some of the family members include:

 

Abraham BRONFMAN

Ekiel BRONFMAN Born: 16 Nov 1855, Russia. Married: 1880. Died: 24 Dec 1919. Married to Mindel ELMAN. (Born: 25 May 1863. Died: 11 Nov 1918.)

Abe BRONFMAN Born: 15 Nov 1882, Russia. Married: 1905. Died: 1968. Married to Sophie RASMINSKY. (Died: 1967.)

Zelia BRONFMAN

Rona BRONFMAN

Mildred BRONFMAN

Beatrice BRONFMAN

Ruth BRONFMAN

Harry BRONFMAN Born: 20 Mar 1885, Russia. Married: 1905. Died: 1963. Married to Ann GALLAMAN. (Died: 1970.)

Allan BRONFMAN Born: 1906. Married: 1931. Died: 1944. Married to Freda BESNER

Mitchell BRONFMAN

Marion BRONFMAN

Beverly BRONFMAN

Gerald BRONFMAN

Rona Retta BRONFMAN

Laura BRONFMAN Born: 1 Jan 1887, Russia. Married: 1911. Died: 1976. Married to Barnett AARON.

Samuel Miles BRONFMAN Sr. Born: 1 Mar 1889, On board ship / born in Soroki, Bessarabia. Married: 20 Jun 1922, Winnipeg, Man. Died: 10 Jul 1971, Montreal, Que. Married to Spouse: Saidye ROSNER BRONFMAN. (Born: 20 Dec 1896, Plum Coulee, Man. Died: 6 Jul 1995, Montreal, Que.)

Aileen Minda BRONFMAN Born: 1925. Married: 1953, Paris, France. Died: 1985. Married to Alain Francois DE GUNZBURG.

Phyllis Barbara BRONFMAN LAMBERT Born: 1927. Married to Jean LAMBERT

Edgar Miles BRONFMAN, Sr. Born: 1929. Died: 2013. Married to Ann Margaret LOEB from 1953โ€“1973. Married to Carolyn TOWNSHEND from 1973โ€“1974. Married to Rita "Georgianna" Eileen WEBB (dates unknown). Married to Jan ARONSON from 1994โ€“2013; his death.

Samuel BRONFMAN

Edgar Miles BRONFMAN, Jr. Born 1955. Married to Sherry BREWER from 1979โ€“1991. Married to Clarisa ALCOCK San Romรกn in 1993.

Benjamin Zachary BRONFMAN Born 1982.

Vanessa Sherry BRONFMAN

Hannah Marcina BRONFMAN Born: 1988

Holly BRONFMAN

Matthew BRONFMAN

Adam Rodgers BRONFMAN

Sara Rosner BRONFMAN Born: 1976.

Clare BRONFMAN Born: 1979.

Charles Rosner BRONFMAN. Married to Barbara BAERWALD. Married to Andrea Brett MORRISON from 1982โ€“2006. (Born: 1945. Died: 2006.) Married to Bonita ROCHE from 2008โ€“2011. Married to Rita MAYO in 2012.

Stephen Bronfman

Coby Bronfman Born 2005 is the fifth son of Matthew bronfman

Ellen BRONFMAN

Jennie BRONFMAN Born: 3 Feb 1891, Manitoba, Canada.

Bess BRONFMAN Born: 2 Mar 1893, Manitoba, Canada. Died: 1980. Married to Harry Louis DRUXERMAN (Born: 1887. Married: 1916. Died: 1940.) Married to Harry SOFORENKO. (Married: 1954. Died: 1964.)

Alvin DRUXERMAN

Jacquelyn Blanche DRUXERMAN

Allan BRONFMAN Born: 2 Jan 1896, Manitoba, Canada. Married: 28 Jun 1922, Ottawa, Ont. Died: 26 Mar 1980, Montreal, Que. Married to Lucy BILSKY.

Mona BRONFMAN Born: 1923. Married: 1947. Died: 1950.

Edward Maurice BRONFMAN Born: 1927. Died: 2005.

Peter Frederick BRONFMAN Born: 1929. Married: 1976. Died: 1 Dec 1996, Toronto, Ont.

Rose BRONFMAN Born: 3 Feb 1898, Manitoba, Canada. Married: 24 Jun 1922, Winnipeg, Man. Died: 31 May 1988. Married to Maxwell RADY (Born: 24 Nov 1899. Died: 3 Mar 1964.)

Mindel RADY

Marjorie RADY

Ernest RADY

Works or publications

Bronfman Family Dynasty on Biography (video

Seagram Museum collection at Hagley Museum and Library (finding aid)

Bronfman Family

Faith, Nicholas. The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-312-33219-8[6]

Gittins, Susan. Behind Closed Doors: The Rise and Fall of Canada's Edper Bronfman and Reichmann Empires. Scarborough, Ont: Prentice Hall Canada, 1995. ISBN 978-0-131-82189-7[7]

MacLeod, Roderick, and Eric John Abrahamson. Spirited Commitment The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, 1952-2007. Montrรฉal: Published for the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-773-58333-7

Marrus, Michael R. Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam. Hanover: Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0-585-26546-9

Newman, Peter Charles. Bronfman Dynasty: The Rothschilds of the New World. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.

 

All things Bronfman:

https://www.revolvy.com/page/Bronfman-family