Background
Severyn Ashkenazy was born in 1936 in Ternopil, then part of Poland, now in Western Ukraine.
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He then attended graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles) for four years, but did not complete his degree.
Career
He has a brother, Arnold. Their father, Izador Ashkenazy, was an art collector who owned paintings by Matisse, Monet, Gauguin, Picasso and Manet. During World World War II, he hid in the cellar of a mansion in the countryside.
After the war, he moved to France, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from the University of Paris.
He gave the commencement speech to University of California, Los Angeles Humanities graduates in 2014.
