Editing Michael Eisner (section)

==Early life and education==
Eisner was born to an affluent, secular Jewish family<ref name="Pinsky">Pinsky, Mark I., [https://books.google.com/books?id=YGtbYTyulb4C&dq=jane+breckenridge+eisner&pg=PA126 The Gospel According to Disney: Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust] p. 123-129</ref><ref>[https://financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-the-jewish-press-and-israel Financial Post: "Lawrence Solomon: The Jewish press and Israel" by Lawrence Solomon] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812013435/http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/lawrence-solomon-the-jewish-press-and-israel |date=August 12, 2016 }} 30 November 2012</ref><ref name="Shtetl">{{Cite book |last=Brook |first=Vincent |url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=purduepress_previews |title=From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood: Chapter 1: Still an Empire of Their Own: How Jews Remain Atop a Reinvented Hollywood |date=December 15, 2016 |publisher=Purdue University Press |isbn=9781557537638 |page=15 |access-date=October 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723222021/https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=purduepress_previews |archive-date=July 23, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> in [[Mount Kisco, New York]]. His mother, Margaret (née Dammann), whose family founded the [[American Safety Razor Company]], was the president of the Irvington Institute, a hospital that treated children with [[rheumatic fever]].<ref name="Pinsky" /> His father, Lester Eisner, Jr., was a lawyer and regional administrator of the [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development]].<ref name="NYTLesterEisner">[https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/19/obituaries/lester-eisner-jr-dies-at-73-former-us-housing-official.html New York Times: "Lester Eisner Jr. Dies at 73; Former U.S. Housing Official"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214210342/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/19/obituaries/lester-eisner-jr-dies-at-73-former-us-housing-official.html |date=February 14, 2017 }} 19 June 1987</ref> His great-grandfather,<ref>Sigmund Eisner obituary, NY Times, 6 January 1925</ref> [[Sigmund Eisner]], established a successful clothing company that was one of the first uniform suppliers to the [[Boy Scouts of America]]<ref name=Pinsky /> and his great-grandmother, Bertha Weiss, belonged to an immigrant family that established the town of [[Red Bank, New Jersey]].<ref name=Pinsky /> Eisner has one sister, Margot Freedman.<ref name=NYTLesterEisner />

He was raised on [[Park Avenue (Manhattan)|Park Avenue]] in Manhattan.<ref name=Pinsky /> He attended the [[Allen-Stevenson School]] kindergarten through ninth grade followed by [[The Lawrenceville School]] in 10th through his senior year and graduated from [[Denison University]] in 1964<ref name=Pinsky /> with a bachelor's degree in English.<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |title=Michael Eisner |url=http://www.michaeleisner.com/bio/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310085440/http://www.michaeleisner.com/bio |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |access-date=20 February 2016 |publisher=michaeleisner.com}}</ref> He is a member of the [[Delta Upsilon]] fraternity<ref>{{Cite web |title=Delta Upsilon Fraternity |url=https://www.sjsu.edu/getinvolved/frso/groups/ifc/du/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214163645/http://www.sjsu.edu/getinvolved/frso/groups/ifc/du/ |archive-date=December 14, 2014 |access-date=11 December 2014 |publisher=San Jose State University |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Delta Upsilon Fraternity |url=https://enrollment.rochester.edu/RocWorld/?p=3810 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120194722/https://enrollment.rochester.edu/RocWorld/?p=3810 |archive-date=20 November 2014 |access-date=11 December 2014 |publisher=University of Rochester}}</ref> and credits much of his success to his time at [[Keewaydin (camp)|Keewaydin Canoe Camp]] for boys in [[Vermont]].<ref name=Pinsky />