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	Leadership Profiles
		Bronfman also serves as President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations whose primary goal is to preserve and foster the worldwide unity of the Jewish people.
		Bronfman has also received the Chevalier de la Legion dâHonneur by the government of France and the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award of the 85th National Convention of the Zionist Organization of America.
		Born in 1929 in Montreal, Canada to the late Saidye Rosner Bronfman and the late Samuel Bronfman, Mr.
	www.hillel.org /about/leadership (1782 words)

	Seagram History - Seagram & Bronfman
		Samuel Bronfman was born on February 27, 1889, in Soroki, Bessarabia, while his family was en route from Russia to Canada.
		Bronfman's keen market sense led to the worldwide success of what became The Seagram Company Ltd. For example, in 1933 when prohibition ended in the United States, his company was prepared with huge amounts of aged and carefully blended whiskies, as well as its own U.S. distribution network.
		Samuel Bronfman died in Montreal on July 10, 1971, at the age of 82.
	www.city.waterloo.on.ca /SeagramCollection/history/seagram.html (547 words)

	Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation Lectureship (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation is one of Canada's major private granting foundations.
		Established in 1952 as a vehicle for joint family giving, the Foundation embodies the philanthropic commitment of its founders and first directors: Samuel Bronfman, a leading industrialist; his wife, Saidye Rosner Bronfman; and their children, Minda, Phyllis, Edgar and Charles.
		Samuel and Saidye Bronfman shared the belief that community involvement was vital to the development of society.
	www.stfx.ca /pinstitutes/bronfman/bronfman.htm (86 words)

	CBC: Life And Times
		Samuel Bronfman’s private side is captured in home movies and interviews with close family members, some appearing on camera for the first time to talk about “Mr.
		In Yiddish, “Bronfman” means Whisky Man, the name attributed to Sam Bronfman as a child by jeering classmates.
		By the time he died in 1971, Bronfman was a billionaire in control of the world's largest distillery.
	www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/bronfman.html (216 words)

	Bronfman Takes on Swiss Banks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bronfman's Swiss hosts had hoped the New York City-based chairman of the multibillion-dollar Seagram empire was a bottom-line man who would settle for a sum and quietly go away.
		Bronfman's determined associates - WJC secretary general Israel Singer and executive director Elan Steinberg, both American - have a list of 24 countries that have given fuzzy answers about what happened to the assets of exiled or murdered Jews.
		Beyond them, Bronfman occupies his father's former office, while his brother Charles is across the hall and his son, current Seagram president and CEO Edgar Jr., works elsewhere on the floor.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=M1ARTM0011351 (3829 words)

	Samuel Bronfman Information
		Samuel Bronfman, CC (February 27, 1889 - July 10, 1971) was the founder of Seagrams and a Canadian family dynasty the Bronfman family.
		Born either in Soroki, Bessarabia or en route to Russia, Bronfman was one of eight children of Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman.
		In 1952, he established the Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation, one of Canada's major private granting foundations.
	www.bookrags.com /Samuel_Bronfman (341 words)

	Bambooweb: Samuel Bronfman
		Samuel Bronfman (February 27, 1891 - July 10, 1971) was the founder of Seagrams and a Canadian family dynasty.
		Bronfman, who was one of eight children of Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman, was born in Soroki, Bessarabia.
		In 1903, the family bought a hotel business, and Samuel, noting that much of the profit was in alcoholic beverages, set up shop as a distributor, founding the Distillers Corporation in Montreal in 1924.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/s/a/Samuel_Bronfman.html (296 words)

	Samuel Bronfman at AllExperts
		Samuel Bronfman, CC (February 27, 1889 - July 10, 1971) was the founder of Seagrams and a Canadian family dynasty the Bronfman family.
		Born either in Soroki, Bessarabia or en route to Russia, Bronfman was one of eight children of Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman.
		Bronfman built an empire based on the appeal of brand names, including Calvert, Dewars, and Seven Crown, to higher level consumers, and merged with Joseph E. Seagram & Sons of Waterloo, Ontario in 1928.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/samuel_bronfman.htm (465 words)

	Edgar Bronfman, Sr. at AllExperts
		Edgar Miles Bronfman (born June 20, 1929) is a Jewish-Canadian businessman and a member of the Bronfman dynasty, and the father of Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
		Edgar is the son of Samuel and Saidye Bronfman; his siblings are the late Minda de Gunzburg, architecture maven Phyllis, and Charles.
		Bronfman's marriage to Lady Townsend was annulled on November 21, 1974 (the marriage lasted less than a year), and was followed by a high-profile messy divorce proceeding.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/ed/edgar_bronfman,_sr..htm (535 words)

	[CTRL] Bronfmans' historyHouston Chronicle coverage:
		Samuel Bronfman made such a fortune bootlegging, all along the U.S./Canadian border but especially from Quebec, that Lake Erie became known as the "Jewish Lake" for his famous speedboats.
		Samuel Bronfman had problems with the petty racketeers who drove the trucks across the border.
		Bronfman's exports gave birth not only to the modern Mob, but also to modern money laundering, according to financial expert J. Orlin Grabbe: Exporting alcohol to the U.S. was not illegal in Canada; it was only illegal to import it from the U.S. side.
	www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg07875.html (1189 words)

	samuel bronfman
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	Adam Bronfman
		Bronfman, managing director of the New York-based The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, makes it seem easy to be an approachable yet respected and generous leader in the worldwide Jewish community.
		It almost seems that Bronfman was predestined for the role he says he never envisioned but has now found himself in: serving as a driving force behind efforts to connect people to Judaism and draw Jews to — or back to — their Jewish roots.
		The Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel is one of the flagship projects of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation and for the past 18 years, it has been educating and inspiring exceptional young Jews from diverse backgrounds to become active participants in Jewish culture.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Adam_Bronfman.html (2098 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Samuel Bronfman, CC (February 27, 1889 – July 10, 1971) was the founder of Seagrams and a Canadian family dynasty the Bronfman family.
		Born either in Soroki, Bessarabia or en route to Russia, Bronfman was one of eight children of Mindel and Ekiel Bronfman.
		The Bronfman's found great success bootlegging to the northern cities of the U.S. such as Boston and Chicago during prohibition, while operating from the perimeters of Montreal, Quebec where alcohol production was still legal.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Samuel_Bronfman (461 words)

	Cigar Aficionado \| People Profile \| Edgar Bronfman Jr.
		Bronfman's disastrous wager on the ambitious dreams of a French empire builder has cost his family billions and left his own reputation in tatters.
		Even before that, Messier was privately claiming that Charles Bronfman was conspiring to oust him and accused him in public of using the tactics of "bootleggers," a less-than-subtle reference to the origins of the family fortune during Prohibition.
		Back at Vivendi Universal, the Bronfmans and other shareholders are pinning all their hopes of a recovery today on Messier's replacement: Jean-Rene Fourtou, a 63-year-old former pharmaceutical boss and close Bebear ally whose no-nonsense style, low-key personality and devotion to the bottom line are the complete antithesis of the celebrity CEO/visionary personified by Messier.
	www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,176,00.html (5474 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The late Samuel Bronfman’s imposing office is in the faux castle on Peel Street that was the Canadian headquarters of the Seagram Company.
		Bronfman in his office and imagine all the conversations that took place here,” said Wells, during the recent official renaming of the building as Martlet House, which refers to the three flying birds on the McGill coat of arms.
		Samuel Bronfman was a member of the university’s board of governors, and his major gift was the financing of the faculty of managment’s quarters.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=3059 (643 words)

	Edward Bronfman; low-profile business titan; 77 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Edward Maurice Bronfman, the elder of the two brothers known as the Toronto Bronfmans, who created their own corporate realm after being denied a place in their better-known cousins' Seagram liquor kingdom, died Monday at his home in Toronto.
		When Samuel willed the empire to his sons, Edward and Peter were shut out as the "poor cousins," a status they soon overcame.
		Bronfman is survived by his wife of 14 years, Marsha Noik Bronfman; three sons, Paul A. Bronfman and David E. Bronfman of Toronto and Brian A. Bronfman of Montreal; a stepdaughter, Lisa Noik Genser of Washington; and seven grandchildren.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050409/news_1m9bronfman.html (494 words)

	Canadian Jewish congress donates Samuel Bronfman House to Concordia University - Press Releases - Concordia University ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Samuel Bronfman House will remain the repository of Congress’ large national archives collection, an irreplaceable resource that reflects all aspects of the community’s history.
		CJC President Moshe Ronen commented, “We are pleased to be donating Samuel Bronfman House to Concordia University, a distinguished institution of higher learning, with a strong commitment to Jewish Studies.
		Samuel Bronfman House, a four-storey structure, is an important addition to Concordia’s expanding presence in downtown Montreal.
	mediarelations.concordia.ca /mediaroom/pressreleases/1999/09/000049.shtml (382 words)

	Samuel Bronfman Biography
		Samuel Bronfman (February 27, 1891-July 10, 1971) was the founder of Seagrams.
		The family began a hotel business in Manitoba, and Samuel, noting that much of the profit was in alcoholic beverages, set up shop as a distributor, founding the Distillers Corporation in Montreal in 1924.
		Samuel Bronfman became president of the Canadian Jewish Congress from 1939 to 1962.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bronfman_Samuel.html (204 words)

	Samuel Bronfman Building
		In 1971, Samuel Bronfman, one of McGill's most loyal contributors, came to the rescue.
		The site chosen for the Bronfman Building was at the northwest corner of Sherbrooke and McTavish, the location, until that time, of the Prince of Wales Terrace, one of the city's most prestigious set of row houses.
		The Bronfman Building is expected to continue serving McGill well into the future.
	cac.mcgill.ca /campus/buildings/Samuel_Bronfman.html (319 words)

	Edgar Bronfman Jr at Hollywood.com
		As the privileged scion of the billionaire Bronfmans and one of the three most prominent "Our Crowd" Jewish-American families on his mother's side, Edgar Bronfman Jr had to struggle to prove he was more than a show business dilettante.
		In the early 1970s, estranged from his father after the breakup of his parents marriage, Bronfman moved to London to work with producer David Puttnam on two films before striking out on his own as producer with the unsuccessful "The Blockhouse" (1973), a depressing story of men trapped in an underground bunker on D-Day.
		Bronfman returned to the US in 1975 when his older brother, Samuel, was kidnapped and held for ransom for nine days.
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Edgar_Bronfman_Jr/1122083 (937 words)

	j. - Saidye Bronfman, matriarch of Canadian Jewry, dies at 98
		Bronfman's children are Edgar Miles Bronfman, chairman of Seagram Company Ltd. and president of the World Jewish Congress; Charles Rosner Bronfman, co-chairman of Seagram's and founder-president of the Montreal-based CRB Foundation; architect Phyllis Barbara Lambert, founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; and the late Aileen Minda de Gunzburg, who married a baron.
		Granddaughter Ellen Bronfman Hauptman flew in from Asia for the funeral.
		And in 1982 the Canadian Jewish Congress granted Bronfman its Samuel Bronfman Medal, presented in the name of her late husband to honor men and women who gave of themselves to improve the community.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/21091/edition_id/22/format/html/displaystory.html (855 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Seagram Heir Edward Bronfman, 77
		Edward Bronfman, 77, the Seagram liquor heir who parlayed his legacy into an investment firm that once controlled 10 percent of Canada's stock market, died April 4, it was reported in Toronto.
		Bronfman and his brother, Peter Bronfman, built Edper Investments Ltd. into a business with interests ranging from forestry and mining to banking, beer and hockey to form the core of what is today Brascan Corp.
		Control of the Seagram liquor business eventually passed to Samuel Bronfman's grandson, Edgar Jr., who sold the company for $30 billion to Vivendi Universal SA in 2000 in return for a 7.5 percent stake in the company.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A32828-2005Apr6?language=printer (297 words)

	Samuel Bronfman: The Life and Times of Seagram's Mr. Sam:0874515718:Marrus, Michael R.:eCampus.com
		Samuel Bronfman's father failed as a wheat farmer and then found success selling frozen fish, firewood, and horses.
		While Samuel Bronfman is a classic rags to riches tale, it is also the story of a Jew who remained in many ways outside business and social establishments even after becoming internationally famous.
		As a leader of the Jewish community Sam was elected president of the Canadian Jewish Congress in 1939, and went on to organize financial aid to the fledgling state of Israel, beginning decades long involvement in Jewish affairs and support for the Jewish state.
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	Beth Tzedec - edward bronfman
		Bronfman was born into a family whose name long has been synonymous with great wealth and business success in Canada.
		Edward Bronfman’s father, Allan, was the brother of Samuel Bronfman, the founder of the Seagram liquor company, which over the decades grew into one of the world’s largest distilling firms.
		In the 1960s, however, Edward Bronfman and his brother Peter were forced out of Seagram by their uncle, Samuel, and their cousins, Charles and Edgar, to whom they sold their shares of the company after a nasty public feud.
	www.beth-tzedec.org /kosher_nexus_mag-detail-4460 (580 words)

	BRONFMAN FILES_DOPE INC.
		Refusing to play ball with the Bronfman gang usually spelled death, and independent-minded gang bosses were often known to be executed by their lieutenants on the Bronfmans behalf.
		In 1926, upon the request of Samuel Bronfman, the DCL agreed to go 50 50 in the Bronfmans distillery, and the Distillery Corporation Limited was formed as a holding company with Bronfman and Seagram s distilleries.
		Allan Bronfman was named president of the Zionist Organization of Canada, a member of the board of trustees of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropists and of the national council of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
	members.fortunecity.com /bigj2/bronfman/bronf_1.html (6470 words)

	A Rare Tour of the House That Same Bronfman Built
		Those wishing for a closer look at the Bronfman empire, however, have long been sorely disappointed: Hopeful visitors to the estate of Samuel and Saidye Bronfman — on the summit of Mount Royal in Montreal's posh neighborhood of Westmount — were confined to gawking at it from their minivans.
		Arriving in Canada as a poor immigrant from Russia, Samuel Bronfman amassed his multi-billion dollar fortune during Prohibition, during which some say he accounted for half of the liquor illegally traversing the Canadian-U.S. border.
		Samuel and Saidye Bronfman bought the mansion at 15 Belvedere Road, built in 1906 by the architect Robert Findlay, in the late 1920s.
	www.pass.to /newsletter/0702ARareTourOTheHouseThatSa.htm (928 words)

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