Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America -- Michael Kimmel, Hardcover

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Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America -- Michael Kimmel, HardcoverIn 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear bound by clothing scraps, stuffed with sawdust, and given button eyes with a sad, longing expression in the back room of their Brooklyn candy store. Together they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation, joining a set of other poor, first generation Jewish toymakers: the Hassenfeld brothers of Hasbro, Ruth Moskowicz and Elliot Handler of Mattel, and Joshua Lionel Cowan of Lionel Trains. From Barbie

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