Intercultural Talk » Rebecca Rubin http://interculturaltalk.org Stereotypes in Advertising, Intercultural Communications, Multicultural Parenting Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:18:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 What Religion is Your Child’s Doll? Welcome Jewish American Girl Doll http://interculturaltalk.org/2009/05/27/what-religion-is-your-childs-doll-welcome-jewish-american-girl-doll/ http://interculturaltalk.org/2009/05/27/what-religion-is-your-childs-doll-welcome-jewish-american-girl-doll/#comments Wed, 27 May 2009 22:41:59 +0000 cultureguru http://interculturaltalk.org/2009/05/27/what-religion-is-your-childs-doll-welcome-jewish-american-girl-doll/ Jewish American Girl Doll   I have not much more to say about the new Jewish American Girl Historical Doll, Rebecca Rubin, that hasn’t already been said (although it is interesting to think-I didn’t realize all the other dolls weren’t Jewish) but it is notable that programming was created to connect the new doll to the Lower Eastside Tenement Museum.  I visited the museum a number of years ago, and definitely felt the connection and history.  I imagined my great grandfather, who came over to the US hidden in the bowels of a ship, may have stayed there before pursuing his fortunes as a junk salesman, and eventually establishing a life and family in the US. 

Photo:  Tony Cenicola, The New York Times, 5/22/09

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