Hillary Clinton and Shimon Peres Honor Edgar Bronfman Sr. at Lincoln Center

Shimon Peres, Hillary Clinton honour Edgar Bronfman at NY memorial

Jan 28, 2014 Verena Dobnik, The Associated Press

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Hillary Clinton joined the family and friends of Edgar Bronfman on Tuesday to remember a Jewish leader whose vast whiskey fortune was eclipsed by a globally-connected personal force that helped Holocaust survivors win back what the Nazis stole.

“He exuded a confidence and honesty that won him the friendship and support of presidents and popes and people everywhere,” the former U.S. secretary of state and first lady told a memorial gathering in Manhattan.

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Clinton said she arranged a 1996 meeting — on just a day’s notice from Bronfman — between him and then U.S. President Bill Clinton. The encounter led to years of negotiations over Holocaust assets between Swiss banks, the World Jewish Congress and the U.S. government.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the congress helped lead the effort to gain $11 billion in restitution for heirs of Holocaust victims. Bronfman was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Hillary Clinton and Shimon Peres to Commemorate Edgar Bronfman Sr.

Shimon Peres and Hillary Clinton will reunite to pay tribute to Edgar Bronfman Sr. on January 28.   The event will take place at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.

 

Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. Obituary

6/20/1929 - 12/21/2013| 

Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. (Associated Press, David Karp)

NEW YORK (AP) - Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., the billionaire businessman and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, which lobbied the Soviets to allow Jews to emigrate and helped spearhead the search for hidden Nazi loot, died Saturday. He was 84.

The Canadian-born Bronfman died at his New York home surrounded by family, according to the family charity he led, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation.

Bronfman made his fortune with his family's Seagram's liquor empire, taking over as chairman and CEO in 1971 and continuing the work of his father, Samuel. Under Bronfman's leadership, Seagram expanded its offerings and was eventually acquired by French media and telecom group Vivendi Universal in 2000.

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Edgar M. Bronfman received the Presidential Medal of Freedom of President Bill Clinton in 1999

Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. Obituary

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Edgar M. Bronfman Sr. (Associated Press, David Karp)

NEW YORK (AP) - Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., the billionaire businessman and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress, which lobbied the Soviets to allow Jews to emigrate and helped spearhead the search for hidden Nazi loot, died Saturday. He was 84.

The Canadian-born Bronfman died at his New York home surrounded by family, according to the family charity he led, The Samuel Bronfman Foundation.

Bronfman made his fortune with his family's Seagram's liquor empire, taking over as chairman and CEO in 1971 and continuing the work of his father, Samuel. Under Bronfman's leadership, Seagram expanded its offerings and was eventually acquired by French media and telecom group Vivendi Universal in 2000.

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