Rebecca Rubin American Girl doll and Jacqueline Dembar Greene, “Meet Rebecca”

Rebecca Rubin doll and Meet Rebecca book, American Girl. Courtesy of American Girl.

The Rebecca doll, books, and accessories established the fictional character of a Jewish nine-year-old girl living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side neighborhood in 1914.

Creators: American Girl

Date of Creation: 2009

Place of origin: Middleton, Wisconsin.

Physical measurements: Doll is eighteen inches tall; book is 6.5 x 8 inches and 86 pages.

Materials: Doll has vinyl limbs and face and stuffed soft cloth body; book has glossy pages.

Process by which it was made: Manufacture, print.


Information contributed by Rachel B. Gross.