 Eisenberg was born on 20 August 1945 in a family of Textile Industrialists in Bucarest, Romania, where all the family properties were then confiscated by the Communists, due to the new political regime.He spent his childhood in Romania during the communist post-war era.Eisenberg’s family was strongly influenced by French culture; his father had studied at La Sorbonne in Paris, and his uncle was a French citizen and had fought during The Second World War for France as a Resistant in the Maquis, and was then shot in Paris by the Nazis on the Day of the Liberation of France.