Personal
Wiseman's brothers are Ron Wiseman, Tel-Aviv based singer-songwriter and purveyor of Judaic-reggae, film professor Howard Wiseman and playwright Gabriel Emmanuel (Gordon Wiseman). His mother, painter Elaine Wiseman takes questions from fans via his website and his late father, Mannie, was an optometrist and director of Lesage Holdings which included substantial Dainty White account. Wiseman is the grand nephew of Isaac Colish, Justice of the Peace and Mayor of West Kildonan (Winnipeg) in 1915 and cousin's with writer Morley Torgov and artist Sarah Torgov. Wiseman's Grandmother Rochel was from Vilnius and claimed Jascha Heifetz was their cousin.
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