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.

Moses Cohen Gravestone

The oldest extant Jewish gravestone in South Carolina.

Creators: Unknown

Date of Creation: 1762

Place of origin: Charleston, South Carolina

Physical measurements: 69” long, 31” across, 2’ tall

Materials: Stone

Process by which it was made: Engraving

Current location: Coming Street Cemetery, Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina


Information contributed by Shari Rabin.