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The American Girl Doll: A Cultural Phenomenon
In 1986, Rowland founded the Pleasant Company in Middleton, Wisconsin, and launched the first line of American Girl dolls. This initial offering included three dolls: Kirsten Larson, a pioneer ...
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The new American Girl doll: She’s Jewish, she’s poor and her name is Rebecca
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. SAN FRANCISCO (JTA ...
I Just Found Out Brie Larson Borrowed Her Stage Name From An American Girl Doll, And It’s The Most Millennial Thing I’ve Ever Heard
Plenty of celebrities opt to go by stage names in Hollywood. From Natalie Hershlag (Portman) to Olivia Cockburn (Wilde) there ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency1y
Meet the real-life sister act behind the two new ’90s Jewish American Girl dolls
And as of this week, in a sense, it is one. On Wednesday, American Girl released its first twin dolls, Isabel and Nicki Hoffman, who are also the first characters from an interfaith family.
Star Tribune25d
American Girl dolls have re-entered the chat. To many, they’re still relevant.
Aurora Fenzl brought a Kirsten doll to a program about American Girl dolls Saturday at the Minnesota History Center. (Greta Kaul/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...
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Dear American Girl, Thank You
These and other characters made up the cast of that 2005 play I directed, based on the American Girl Josefina ... 18-inch dolls) adored by middle-school girls since they first became available ...