Editing Eva Zeisel (section)

===Early life and family===
She was born in [[Budapest]], Hungary, in 1906<ref name=CH>{{cite web|title=Eva S. Zeisel|url=http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18043295/|work=Collections|publisher=[[Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum]]|access-date=30 September 2012}}</ref> to a wealthy, highly educated assimilated Jewish family. Her mother, Laura Polányi Striker, a historian, was the first woman to get a PhD from the [[University of Budapest]]. Striker's work on Captain [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]]'s adventures in Hungary added fundamentally to our understanding and appreciation of his reliability as a narrator. Zeisel's uncles were [[Karl Polanyi]], a sociologist and economist, and [[Michael Polanyi]], a physical chemist and philosopher of science.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.government-online.net/eva-zeisel-obituary/ |title=Eva Zeisel obituary |access-date=2012-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129031018/http://www.government-online.net/eva-zeisel-obituary/ |archive-date=2014-11-29 |url-status=usurped }}</ref>