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Hassenfeld Brothers. Three Polish-Jewish brothers, Herman, Hillel, and Henry Hassenfeld, founded Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island, in late 1923, a company selling textile remnants. Over the next two decades, the company expanded to produce pencil cases and school supplies.
Hasbro traces its origin to an enterprise founded in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1923 by Henry, Hilal, and Herman Hassenfeld, brothers who had emigrated to the United States from Poland. The Hassenfeld brothers engaged in the textile remnant business, selling cloth leftovers.
May 17, 2018 · Hasbro traces its origin to an enterprise founded in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1923 by Henry, Hilal, and Herman Hassenfeld, brothers who had emigrated to the United States from Poland. The Hassenfeld brothers engaged in the textile remnant business, selling cloth leftovers.
One hundred years ago, three Polish emigrants, brothers Henry, Hilal and Herman Hassenfeld, began selling cloth remnants used for pencil box covers and pouches for school supplies. After incorporating their business as Hassenfeld Brothers in 1926, the company made pencils and pencil cases.
When Herman Hassenfeld was born on 26 August 1882, in Ulanów, Nowy Kawęczyn, Skierniewice, Łódź, Poland, his father, Isaiah Yishai Hassenfeld, was 32 and his mother, Chaya Sheindel Reich, was 28. He married Pessel Laufer about 1899, in Ulanów, Głogów, Lower Silesia, Poland.
Dec 14, 2017 · In 1952, Polish-Jewish immigrant brothers Henry, Herman and Hillel Hassenfeld saw a good future in the latest creation of Brooklyn-born toy inventor George Lerner, a Jew of Romanian descent.
Dec 15, 2023 · It was Henry Hassenfeld’s son, Merrill, who saw potential to get into playthings: His reasoning was that Hasbro needed product outside of school shopping season. In the 1930s and 1940s,...
