Presented by The Foundation of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
Shepard Broad OF BLESSED MEMORY
Business pioneer, Zionist, philanthropist, visionary…these are all words that have been used to describe Shepard Broad. Born in 1906 in Pinsk, Russia, into an Orthodox Jewish family, Shmuel Bobrowicz (Szmuel Bobrowice) lost his mother at age three and became an orphan at 10 when his father died just prior to World War I. He and his younger brothers survived the German occupation of his city and the
hostilities between the Poles and the Bolsheviks that followed. His American uncle offered to sponsor his entry into the United States, arranging for steerage passage from Antwerp via Warsaw. To get there, the 13-year-old boy set off on a perilous adventure and at one point jumped a freight train in the dark, only to be thrown off at daybreak by a railroad official. He finally made his way to Antwerp and, after a three-week voyage, arrived in New York, where he lived with his Uncle and Aunt. After giving the young nephew a new name, Shepard Broad, the uncle enrolled him in school. Because he spoke only
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