Michael Kimmel
The great–grandnephew of the founder of the Ideal Toy Corporation, Michael Kimmel is a SUNY distinguished professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies and founder of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University. The author of Guyland, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Michael Kimmel
The great–grandnephew of the founder of the Ideal Toy Corporation, Michael Kimmel is a SUNY distinguished professor emeritus of sociology and gender studies and founder of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University. The author of Guyland, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Books by Michael Kimmel

Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
Michael Kimmel
Hardback, 2026
An illuminating story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child”

Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America
Michael Kimmel
E Book
An illuminating story of the first-generation Jewish American toymakers who literally manufactured “the century of the child”



