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Birth Name: Edgar Miles Bronfman
Born: 20 January 1929 Died: 21 December 2013
Country of origin: 
Canada
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Bronfman was born in Montreal into the Jewish Canadian Bronfman family, the son of Samuel Bronfman and Saidye Rosner Bronfman. Sam and Saidye were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who settled and raised their four children in Montreal. Sam and his brother Allan built the family’s first liquor distillery in 1925 near Montreal. They later bought a distillery owned by the Seagram family and incorporated the name. The U.S. subsidiary of the Seagram Company Ltd. opened in 1933, where Edgar Bronfman would later take over as head.
Bronfman had two older sisters, Minda de Gunzburg and architecture maven Phyllis Lambert, and a
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