Editing Ruth Handler (section)

==Early life==
Ruth Marianna Mosko<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/5122 |title=Collection: Papers of Ruth Handler, 1931-2002 |work=HOLLIS Archives |publisher=Harvard University Press |access-date=July 23, 2015}}</ref><ref name="FWI">{{cite web |website=Famous Women Inventors |access-date=January 23, 2017 |url=http://www.women-inventors.com/Ruth-Handler.asp |title=Ruth Handler, Barbie Doll Invention}}</ref><ref name="JWA">{{cite web |last=Altman|first=Julie |url=http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/handler-ruth-mosko |title=Ruth Mosko Handler |date=March 20, 2009 |website=Jewish Women's Archive |access-date=January 7, 2015}}</ref> was born on November 4, 1916 in [[Denver]], Colorado, to [[Polish Jews|Polish-Jewish]] immigrants Jacob Moskowicz, a blacksmith and Ida Moskowicz (née-Rubenstein).<ref>{{cite book |last=Cross |first=Mary |date=2013 |title=100 People Who Changed 20th-Century America, Volume 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JOX4CDRb_oC |location=Santa Barbara |publisher=ABC-CLIO |page=337 |isbn=9781610690867}}</ref> She was the youngest of ten children.<ref name="JWA" /> When she was six months old, her parents sent her to live with her older sister Sarah. She stayed with Sarah until she was 19<ref name="JWA" /> and developed an enthusiasm for business by working at Sarah’s drugstore/soda fountain.<ref name="JWA" />

In 1932, Ruth fell in love with Izzy Handler,<ref name="JWA" /> an art student. The summer of her sophomore year at [[University of Denver]], she went to Los Angeles and landed a job at [[Paramount Studio]]. Ruth and Izzy married in 1938 in Denver. Returning to California, Ruth encouraged her husband to become known by his middle name, Elliot.<ref name="JWA" /> Ruth returned to work at Paramount and Elliot was employed as a lighting fixture designer.