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Hasbro, Inc. ( / ˈhæzbroʊ /; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment holding company founded on December 6, 1923 by Henry, Hillel and Herman Hassenfeld and is incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. [5]
Dec 15, 2023 · In 1923, brothers and Polish immigrants Henry and Hillel Hassenfeld founded Hassenfeld Bros. Inc., a company based in Rhode Island that sold textile and fabric remnants.
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.
Apr 1, 1990 · The founders, Henry and Hillel Hassenfeld, were Polish immigrants whose Hassenfeld Brothers Inc. evolved from the rag business in Pawtucket, R.I., to cloth-covered pencil boxes and from there into pencils and school supplies.
Sep 22, 2019 · The company’s founders, brothers Hillel and Henry Hassenfeld, who immigrated to America in the summer of 1903, when they were penniless teenagers who spoke no English, could not have imagined...
Hillel died in 1943 and Henry Hassenfeld became CEO, while his son Anthony Merrill became president.
Mar 12, 2015 · Genealogy for Hillel Hassenfeld (1886 - 1943) family tree on Geni, with over 250 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
When Helal Hillel Hassenfeld was born on 29 July 1885, in Ulanów, Nisko, Podkarpackie, Poland, his father, Isaiah Yishai Hassenfeld, was 35 and his mother, Chaya Sheindel Reich, was 31. He married Esther Margolis on 7 February 1936, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
Nov 14, 2019 · Driven from Europe as teenagers during the first World War, brothers Henry and Hillel Hassenfeld came to the U.S. fleeing societal unrest, unmitigated hatred, and pogroms which slaughtered thousands of Jews.
Dec 22, 2022 · The Hassenfeld Brothers, founders of the company now known as Hasbro, consisted of Herman, Hillel, and Henry Hassenfeld. They left Poland for Providence, Rhode Island, to form a literal “rag trade” in 1923 (they bought and sold remnants from textile companies).
