With 1.2 million Instagram followers and 123.4K followers on TikTok, Hannah Bronfman is one of the bigger Jewish influencers out there. But in the real world, Hannah also holds the title of author, mother, investor and proud Black Jew.
Here are 18 things to know about her.
1. Hannah Bronfman was born on October 26, 1987 in New York City.
2. She’s a Scorpio.
3. Her father is businessman Edgar Bronfman Jr., of the prominent Jewish family the Bronfmans. Her mother is actress Sherry Brewer.
4. Please enjoy this photo of Hannah as a child with her mom and siblings, Ben and Vanessa:
5. Hannah has Russian and Romanian Jewish roots through her father.
“They were originally tobacco farmers from Bessarabia. After fleeing the pogroms of Tsarist Russia in 1889 for Saskatchewan, the family’s patriarch Yechiel got a job on the railroad and then another at a sawmill until he and his sons—including Samuel, the eventual builder of the Seagram empire—could get together enough capital to start their own concerns,” Steven I. Weiss wrote for Tablet Magazine.
6. Growing up being Black and Jewish was complicated for Hannah.
“Growing up in NYC from a prominent Jewish family, with a very strong black mother who grew up during segregation in the south side of Chicago from a middle-class family,” Bronfman told The Nosher, “from a young age, I was very aware of both of these sides of myself. It can be challenging being mixed, especially in the 90s and 2000s — obviously now as well — but as a young girl, trying to figure out your identity and it being a little more complicated than most…”
She continued, “I won’t say it was hard, and I won’t say it was easy.”
7. But Hannah is proud of her mixed heritage.
“I was always very proud of my Jewish heritage. I knew from a young age that I wanted to have a bat mitzvah, I also knew from a young age, that this was very different from how my mother grew up. She really wanted me to own both sides. My mom was a very confident woman herself, and so she definitely instilled a lot of that in me.”
8. One of her memories from growing up includes gefilte fish!
“Maybe it started out as trying to be a goody two-shoes but I always remember being the one kid at the table who just ate all of the gefilte fish, and everyone was always talking about how I would [always] eat all the gefilte fish,” she has said.
9. She graduated from Bard College in 2010 with a degree in sculpture.
10. Hannah is a fitness and wellness expert.
“I grew up in a household that was very into the world of wellness; my mom loves reiki, very plant-based and conscientious about nutrition,” she said in an interview. “However, it was really when my grandmother passed away from anorexia that I made health and wellness a priority in my life. ”
11. Her favorite Jewish food is haroset, which her grandfather used to make from scratch.
12. Hannah married her husband Brendan Fallis in 2017 in Morocco. (The pair met because they were both working as DJs on the party circuit!) They exchanged handwritten vows at the La Mamounia resort and apparently Brendan’s vows were a tear-jerker!
“I got almost every guy crying. The women are easier to get an emotional rise out of, but even Hannah’s dad said he cried,” Brendan told Brides.
At the final dinner before the end of the wedding weekend, Hannah and Brendan did the hora.
“We meant to do the hora the night before, but it just didn’t happen, and I was not going to miss my opportunity to get put in a chair,” Hannah explained. “I’d been waiting my entire life for that moment!”
13. She and Brendan have two children: a son, Preston, and a daughter, Claude.
14. Hannah has been open online about her experience with fertility struggles and miscarriages.
“I’ve done it because I’m not living on an island, suffering alone. What I was going through was the same as so many women and families, but so often—in the midst of the struggle—it’s hard to speak up,” she told Glamour in 2023. “And as Black women, our experiences are far too often invisible. I didn’t set out to become a poster child of fertility struggles, but I felt strongly that just talking about it could help others in my position.”
15. In 2019, Hannah released her first book, “Do What Feels Good: Recipes, Remedies, and Routines to Treat Your Body Right.” According to Nosher contributor Emily Burack, the book is part cookbook, part wellness how-to and part memoir.
16. Hannah is also an angel investor, meaning she provides financial support to businesses when they’re starting out in exchange for ownership equity or convertible debt. You can listen to her talk about it here.
17. Want to take a look inside Hannah and Brendan’s loft? Look no further:
18. She looks great in a Star of David necklace!
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