Play-makers the Jewish entrepreneurs who created the toy industry in America
Playmakers by Michael Kimmel explores the history of the American toy industry through the experiences of first-generation Jewish American toymakers. Beginning with Morris and Rose Michtom, inventors of the Teddy Bear, the book traces the contributions of pioneers such as the Hassenfeld brothers (Ha...
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: The world of our great-grandfathers. Teddy's bear
- Coming to America
- A new ideal of childhood
- Part II: The material culture of childhood, 1920-1950. Furnishing the new ideal childhood
- Struggling against depression
- The war and its aftermath
- Safe havens
- Part III: The baby boom. The baby boom
- The experts and the storytellers
- Beyond Ben's "ideal" girlhood: girls and dolls
- Boys and their toys
- Part IV: Creating childhood. How first-generation Jews created American childhood.
