As one of 12 historical dolls in the active lineup of historical American Girls, Rebecca was the first American Girl doll with a Jewish story when she came on the scene in 2009. (This spring ...

And the American Girl dolls themselves aren’t all blonde, blue-eyed and button-nosed. There are also dolls who are Native American, African American, Hispanic…and now, Jewish. Rebecca Rubin is a ...

Rebecca Rubin, an American Girl doll released in 2009, tells the story of Jewish immigration to the United States. Courtesy of Museum of Jewish Heritage. By Irene Katz Connelly December 7, 2023.

Unlike the first Jewish historical American Girl doll Rebecca Rubin – whose 2009-released collection included a variety of traditional Ashkenazi items such as a menorah, dreidel, Shabbat candles ...

She also is an icon for many Minnesota girls who grew up with the American Girl line of dolls in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, along with its catalogs and books describing a year in the life of each ...

And the American Girl dolls themselves aren’t all blonde, blue-eyed and button-nosed. There are also dolls who are Native American, African American, Hispanic…and now, Jewish. Rebecca Rubin is a ...