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SUMMARY:Michael Kimmel - 2026-2027 Author Series
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] \nJoin us as we welcome Michael Kimmel discussing his book Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs who Created the Toy Industry in America.\n\n\nThe untold story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child.” \nFrom Barbie and G.I. Joe to Popeye\, Superman\, and Mr. Potato Head\, Playmakers reveals how the toy industry created the idealized American childhood: an enchanted world\, full of wild creatures and eternal struggles between good and evil\, with endless realms of fantasy and beauty. For much of the twentieth century\, every part of the American toy business was largely Jewish―the company founders\, executives\, and designers\, as well as the factory workers\, wholesale distributors\, retail outlets\, and armies of salesmen. A descendant of the founders of the Ideal Toy Corporation\, Michael Kimmel shows how these poor\, often Yiddish-speaking\, tenement-dwelling children of immigrants invented a world they never experienced for themselves. Along with the toys and Jewish toymakers that climbed the ladder of success\, Kimmel also portrays the rise of an entire culture focused on children\, led by Jewish comic book creators\, children’s authors\, parenting experts\, and child psychologists. \nThe first full-scale toy history of the United States\, Kimmel’s story conjures the colorful\, imaginative\, restless spirits who followed the promise of the American Dream―and describes the ways in which the world they came from molded their beloved creations. Playmakers shows that the overlapping experiences of being a Jew\, an immigrant\, and a child in twentieth-century America―an outsider looking in\, a person desperate to be accepted―created childhood as we know it today. \nIN-PERSON at B’nai Torah Congregation | $18/person \nClick here to register\n \n\nIn partnership with \n \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.btcboca.org/event/michael-kimmel-2026-2027-author-series/
LOCATION:B’nai Torah Congregation\, 6261 SW 18th Street\, Boca Raton\, FL\, 33433\, United States
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