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Charles Bronfman: Edgar Bronfman
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Charles and his brother Edgar are sons of Canadian liquor magnate Samuel Bronfman. After Samuel’s 1971 death, the brothers took over his Seagram Company and took up his philanthropy. Edgar leads the World Jewish Congress.
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Bronfman’s grandfather, Sam, was the colorful, larger-and-louder-than-life character who started Seagrams. Sam’s sons, Charles, and Bronfman’s father, Edgar, the first Jews admitted into Trinity College School in Ontario, turned Seagrams into a business empire. Edgar Bronfman Sr. became president of the World Jewish Restitution Congress, which led the cause of exacting Holocaust reparations from Swiss and German institutions. He now serves as the international chairman of Hillel.
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Mr. Bronfman has served on the Mount Sinai Boards of Trustees since 2002. Along with his late wife, Andrea Morrison Bronfman, he has supported the Emergency Room Renovation Project, the Stephen M. Peck Jewish Chapel, the President's Fund, and the Crystal Ball. Charles Bronfman's brother, Edgar Bronfman, was ... a member of the Mount Sinai Board of Trustees, from 1957 to 1985. The Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai was named in honor of their father.
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The roots of the disaster had their origins in the very foundations of the dynasty and the forbidding legacy left behind by Sam Bronfman, the clan's mercurial founder. But the actual beginning of the end can be traced to a fairly innocuous breakfast meeting that Edgar Jr. decided to squeeze into a Paris vacation one cool, overcast October morning in 1999. The meeting he arranged was with Jean-Marie Messier, a compact bundle of energy, ambition and ego, who was then in the midst of transforming a staid French water and sewage utility called Vivendi into a media and communications colossus. It didn't take long for Edgar Jr. to realize that he was talking to someone who shared his grand vision of an Internet-driven future dominated by a few smart global media companies. He, too, was in the business of change, having torn Seagram from its long-established roots in spirits and wine and plunged it headlong into the much riskier but far sexier realm of music, movies and theme parks. But it was the Internet and its endless possibilities that really made his eyes light up.
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Through Seagrams and the WJC, Edgar Bronfman was a top business collaborator of some of the most prominent figures in the former Soviet Union and East Germany. Just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of East Germany, Bronfman was given the highest civilian award by the East German Communist Party, for his efforts to salvage the communist state.
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Edgar Bronfman actually has a strategy--with a twist Let others bulk up on cable. The Seagram heir is challenging Disney in theme parks and laying out billions to be No. 1 in music. Can this possibly work?
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