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Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America "the way that hope isIn 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