Dana Witkin holds her brand new Rebecca Rubin doll up to her face, and the resemblance is hard to ignore. Both the 7-year-old Orange County resident and ...

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 ...

There was a six-year gap between his work with American Girl in 2002-2003 and Rebecca’s release in 2009 — quite a long delay for a brand that releases a new “Girl of the Year” doll annually.

Rebecca Rubin, the newest American Girl doll, is Jewish. More specifically, she's the first-generation daughter of Russian immigrants, a nine-year-old growing up in the Lower East ...

But Rebecca Rubin is also an 18-inch doll, the newest in the American Girl collection, which brings in a whopping $463 million each year for the toy giant Mattel -- 7 percent of their total sales ...

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 ...

It’s official: The newest American Girl doll is 9-year-old Rebecca Rubin, a Jewish-American girl who lives with her family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1914.

The American Girl doll company is adding a new character to its multiethnic lineup. She's Rebecca, a Jewish Russian immigrant girl living on Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1914.

The historical American Girl doll Rebecca Rubin is a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived on the Lower East Side in 1914. (Courtesy Museum of Jewish Heritage) By Julia Gergely November 30, 2023 ...