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  2. 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]

  3. Oct 31, 2011 · Their cousins, Edward and Peter Bronfman (sons of Allan Bronfman), developed a financial empire in their own right. The family has given generously to several charitable organizations and been involved in the Canadian Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress.

  4. Jul 3, 2019 · Stephen Bronfman, the Montreal point man in the deal to split home games with the Tampa Bay Rays, comes from the family that turned Seagram into one of the world’s top liquor distillers.

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  5. Mar 5, 2007 · What drives a three-generation family biography like Nicholas Faith’s The Bronfmans is the idea that they built up a completely new kind of giant global business in liquor over 50 years – spirits and wines were resourced from practically everywhere and sold everywhere – and then bet the shop and lost it in a couple of years in the ...

  6. Jun 26, 2017 · In 1993, the Bronfman family created the Canada Studies Institute at McGill, and in 2002, they donated the Seagram Building on Sherbrooke Street to the university. In Jerusalem, the archeology wing of the Israel Museum bears the names of Samuel and Saidye Bronfman.

  7. Aug 11, 2018 · Clare Bronfman was born into a billion-dollar family. Now she faces federal charges over her involvement with a group called Nxivm.

  8. Samuel Bronfman, CC (February 27, 1889 – July 10, 1971) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Canadian Bronfman family. He founded Distillers Corporation Limited and purchased the Seagram Company , [ 1 ] that became the world’s largest liquor distilling firm.