Bronfman family
The Bronfman family is a Canadian-American Jewish family. It owes its initial fame to Samuel Bronfman, who made a fortune in the alcoholic distilled beverage business during American prohibition through the family's Seagram Company.
The family is of Russian Jewish and Romanian Jewish ancestry; "they were originally tobacco farmers from Bessarabia". According to New York Times staff reporter Nathaniel Popper, the Bronfman family is "perhaps the single largest force in the Jewish charitable world."
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.
- ** Abe BRONFMAN Born: 15 Nov 1882, Russia. Married: 1905. Died: 1968. Married to Sophie RASMINSKY.
- *** 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.
- *** 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.
- *** 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 1953–1973. Married to Carolyn TOWNSHEND from 1973–1974. Married to Rita "Georgianna" Eileen WEBB. Married to Jan ARONSON from 1994–2013; his death.
- **** Samuel BRONFMAN
- **** Edgar Miles BRONFMAN, Jr. Born 1955. Married to Sherry BREWER from 1979–1991. Married to Clarisa ALCOCK San Román 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 1982–2006. Married to Bonita ROCHE from 2008–2011. 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 Married to Harry SOFORENKO.
- *** 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.
- **** Brue Bronfman
- **** Linda Bronfman
- **** Brenda Bronfman
- ** Rose BRONFMAN Born: 3 Feb 1898, Manitoba, Canada. Married: 24 Jun 1922, Winnipeg, Man. Died: 31 May 1988. Married to Maxwell RADY
- *** Mindel RADY
- *** Marjorie RADY
- *** Ernest RADY
Works or publications
- on Biography '
- at Hagley Museum and Library '
Bronfman Family
- Faith, Nicholas. ' New York: St. Martin's Press, 2006.
- Gittins, Susan. ' Scarborough, Ont: Prentice Hall Canada, 1995.
- MacLeod, Roderick, and Eric John Abrahamson. ' Montréal: Published for the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
- Marrus, Michael R. ' Hanover: Published by University Press of New England Brandeis University Press, 1991.
- Newman, Peter Charles. ' Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978.
- * Also published as Newman, Peter Charles. ' New York: Atheneum, 1979.
- Kelowna, B.C.: distributed by FilmWest Associates: 1996.
- * Video abstract: "Documents the rise to success of the Bronfman Family, who came to Canada as poor immigrants and became rich and powerful through selling and distilling whisky. Family members recall the tough and determined character of Samuel who strove for social acceptance and respectability while alienating many of his family."
Charles Bronfman
- Bronfman, Charles, and Jeffrey Solomon. ' San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012.
- Bronfman, Charles, and Jeffrey Solomon. ' San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
- Bronfman, Edgar M., and Jan Aronson. ' New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2012.
- Bronfman, Edgar M. ' New York: Putnam, 1998.
- Bronfman, Edgar M., and Beth Zasloff. ' New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008.
- Bronfman, Edgar M. ' New York: Putnam, 1996.
- Bronfman, Edgar M., and Catherine Whitney. New York: G. P. Putnam, 2002.
Saidye Bronfman
- Bronfman, Saidye. Erin, Ont: Porcupine's Quill, 1982. Privately printed. One thousand copies have been printed. Written by his wife, Saidye Rosner Bronfman.
Phyllis Lambert
- Lambert, Phyllis, and Barry Bergdoll. New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Yale University Press, 2013.
- * Book abstract: "The Seagram building rises over New York's Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman's daughter Phyllis Lambert was twenty-seven years old when she took over the search for an architect and chose Mies van der Rohe, a pioneering modern master of what he termed "skin and bones" architecture. Mies, who designed the elegant, deceptively simple thirty-eight story tower along with Philip Johnson, emphasized the beauty of structure and fine materials, and set the building back from the avenue, creating an urban oasis with the building's plaza. Through her choice, Lambert established her role as a leading architectural patron and singlehandedly changed the face of American urban architecture. Building Seagram is a comprehensive personal and scholarly history of a major building and its architectural, cultural, and urban legacies. Lambert makes use of previously unpublished personal archives, company correspondence, and photographs to tell an insider's view of the debates, resolutions, and unknown dramas of the building's construction, as well as its crucial role in the history of modern art and architectural culture."
Philanthropy