Feminism, Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 06/11/2009
Rebecca Rubin: The First Jewish Doll
Kit, Josefina and Molly! YAY!
Remember American Girl Dolls? It used to be a huge thing to have one of those dolls. Every one had its own little story. Dolls with identities. There was Samantha, who was from the Victorian era, and Felicity, who lived during the American Revolution and plenty of others.
These dolls were fun because they actually had substance- a story, something to teach us. Maybe the lessons weren’t really expansive (I didn’t actually know anything about my Samantha doll other than the Victorian era epithet) but I preferred introducing a doll in that way rather than with an, “isn’t she pretty?” And I like that a doll company thinks that way, too. At least in theory.
Well, on June 2nd the first Jewish American Girl Doll, Rebecca Rubin, was introduced. Further…
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