Thursday 26 December 2013

"Blunt" Edgar Bronfman Sr. OBM Dies at Age 84

«Pope John Paul II making Waldheim a papal knight was "like giving a rotten structure a fresh coat of paint," the billionaire head of the World Jewish Congress wrote with his customary directness.

He received no reply to his 1987 letter — but the same blunt approach helped him persuade the Soviets to allow Jewish emigration and the Swiss to acknowledge that their banks had swallowed up the life savings deposited by Holocaust victims.

Bronfman, an heir to the Seagram's whiskey empire who later in life led a global campaign for Jewish causes, died Saturday at his New York City home, according to an announcement from his family's charity, the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. He was 84.
Edgar Bronfman Sr. dies at 84; ex-Seagram's chief led World Jewish Congress - latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-edgar-bronfman-20131223,0,2438662.story#axzz2oL49RrDd


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