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Blinken was born on April 16, 1962, in Yonkers, New York, to Jewish parents. His mother was Judith (née Frehm) Blinken and his father was Donald M. Blinken, a co-founder of the private equity firm Warburg Pincus who later served as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary. [5] [6] [7] His maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jews. [8]
Maurice Blinken was an early backer of Israel and founded the American Palestine Institute which helped persuade the United States to back the creation of Israel. [6] [7] [8] His father and mother were of Jewish descent and his father was from Kyiv, the Russian Empire, who, according to Antony Blinken, "fled pogroms in Russia". [9]
His grandfather fled anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia, and his step-father, Samuel Pisar, survived four years in Nazi concentration camps. ... "You can't know Tony without knowing the extent to which ...
Blinken was born on December 24, 1937, in New York City, the son of Ethel (Horowitz) and Maurice Blinken. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Kyiv. His older brother Donald M. Blinken, was also a diplomat. Blinken was raised in Manhattan and Yonkers, New York, and graduated from the Horace Mann School.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s father, Donald, a former U.S. diplomat, investment banker and modern art collector, died on Thursday. Blinken announced his father’s passing in a series of ...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday separately met US leaders from the Jewish as well as Arab and Palestinian-American communities amid war in the Middle East between Israel and ...
Blinken is the surname of the following notable people: Alan Blinken (born 1937), American businessman and diplomat; Antony Blinken (born 1962), American government official and diplomat; U.S. Secretary of State; Donald M. Blinken (1925–2022), American businessman and diplomat, father of Antony and brother of Alan
Samuel Pisar was a Holocaust survivor who pushed rival nations to engage in commerce, and he left an imprint on the likely next secretary of State. How Tony Blinken’s Stepfather Changed the ...