Severyn Ashkenazy

Severyn Ashkenazy (born 1936) is a Polish-born American hotelier.

Early life Severyn Ashkenazy was born in 1936 in Tarnopol, then part of Poland, now in Western Ukraine. He has a brother, Arnold.

After the war, he moved to France, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from the University of Paris. He then attended graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for four years, where he was a PhD candidate.

His son, Stefan Ashkenazy, was married to the Kazakh businesswoman and socialite Goga Ashkenazi from 2003 to 2007, and they have a son, Adam.