#rebecca rubin

[agflashgamesenjoyer]

Transparent PNGs of the Historical Characters from American Girl's website, circa 2011-2012.

[mia-st-clair-deserved-to-kill]

I may be misremembering some events but alas

[autisticmckennabrooks]

healing my inner child one matching fit at a time

[desertdollranch]

Rebecca can hardly contain her excitement. Tonight, she and her family are going to Times Square to see the famous illusionist Harry Houdini perform an escape act! He'll be hoisted upside down by a crane, hanging over the stage, with his arms and legs tightly bound together in a straitjacket, and he will have only a few minutes to escape his bindings using no tools or assistance. Houdini has amazed audiences all over the world with his daring escapes from chains, handcuffs, water tanks, and coffins. But will tonight be the night that he can't escape?

A man selling pickles from a pickle cart in front of Papa's shoe store told Rebecca that Houdini's real name is Ehrich Weiss, and he's a Jewish immigrant from Hungary. Rebecca is almost just as excited to share this information with her family! But then her older sister Sadie challenges Rebecca to a contest: which one of them can be first to figure out the secret to escaping from tied ropes? If Rebecca wins, Sadie will give Rebecca the pretty crystal she bought from a fortune teller. If Sadie wins, Rebecca has to give her their grandmother's painted brooch. Time for Rebecca to start practicing her own escape act!

In the year Rebecca's mystery story The Crystal Ball takes place, Harry Houdini was already very famous for his escapes, all the while emphasizing that no actual magic or supernatural power was used in his shows, just skill and sleight of hand. In the years to come, he would become equally well known for debunking psychics and spiritualists who claimed to have the power to speak to the dead. He even offered a large cash prize to any medium who could prove their supernatural abilities, but that was still unclaimed by the time Houdini died on October 31st, 1926.

Before his death, Houdini and his wife Bess came up with a secret code phrase to be used in the event that one of them died and communication with the dead was actually possible. Bess held many seances over the following decade after Harry's death, but none of the psychics was ever able to relay that phrase to Bess.

[girloftheisland]

This is the primary AG holiday decor in our house. Seemed unlikely that we could afford to collect all the historical holiday outfits, so this is the next best thing.

[pancreasnostalgia]

Rebecca is glad to have someone to celebrate Hanukkah with. She and Lindsey are sharing a variety of old-fashioned and modern treats.

[oddball-n-the-dolls]

How have we not gotten a historical AG doll from Chicago yet?

It’s the third biggest city in the US, and the biggest in the Midwest

It’s the birthplace of many inventions, like the first skyscraper, and its played a crucial role in American history by its location being a crucial point for trading

Also I will forever find it hilarious that we’ve now had not 1, not 2, not even 3, but 4 New York City dolls. Which might not be so bad, but the real kicker is that their eras are back-to-back-to-back (1904 x2, 1914, 1922) And only Nellie of those 4 is officially retired

I don’t actually mind having 4 NYC girls. I love them all and I think they’re all important

It’s just. So much New York. I find it hilarious, not annoying

[paperstarzz]

🦅 American Girl 🦅

My favorites were always Kirsten and Rebecca, although the only doll I have is Caroline (third favorite)

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[americangirldollies]

Rebecca's Directors Set Title Cards

Scanned and edited (mostly) for your enjoyment!

"Title cards, which were used before movies had sound so audiences could read the dialogue on-screen"

[haveamagicalday]

Duel of the American Girl Dolls: Historical Pets (Round 1)

This is a poll in the Duel of the American Girl Dolls. Other polls can be found here

[americangirlstar]

American Girl + Percy Jackson PicCrew (2/?)

Samantha "Sam" Parkington, daughter of Hades

Nellie O'Malley, daughter of Hephaestus

Rebecca Rubin, daughter of Dionysus

Claudie Wells, daughter of Hermes

Margaret "Kit" Kittredge, daughter of Hermes

Ruthie Smithens, daughter of Aphrodite

Alice Nanea Mitchell, daughter of Ares

Molly McIntire, daughter of Nike

Emily Bennett, daughter of Athena

[pleasantsamantha]

The gang is ALL here dressed in their best for December ❄️

[strwbrryvagabond]

wanted to get on here and yap about American Girl for some reason today

I'm far from a brand loyalist, and honestly, I was shocked I didn't grow up with the off-brand dolls you could get at Walmart or Target since I grew up poor until recently when my mom informed me that I would save money up for months and months at a time so that I could buy the dolls, and my parents only even actually purchased one for my birthday once we started to do a bit better financially, and after they saw how much I loved and took care of the dolls

I bought accessories for them myself as well, both from the actual company and from other brands like Target and Walmart ones, and even paid my mom to order me a bunk bed for them off of Etsy or something because I was so distraught that they didn't all have their own beds.

Anyways, I know brands are bad and stuff, and American Girl is not without faults and controversies, but tbh those dolls really shaped me as a kid, like I intentionally bought Rebecca Rubin as my first doll when I was a kid after seeing her in a catalog that we got sent by mistake because she was Jewish and looked like me. I had never seen a doll or character, or pretty much anything at that age who was Jewish like me and looked like me, and she wanted to be an actress, and at the time, I also wanted to act

I took that doll very literally everywhere, half the pictures of me from that age, she's tucked under my arm in a different outfit, her hair as well taken care of as I could manage for being so little. I accidentally messed up one of her curls while trying to fix her hair, and I cried for like a solid half an hour until my mom helped me fix it. even after I got other dolls, all of which I still loved and took care of religiously, Rebecca was the one who came everywhere with me

I'd already been a big reader before that, which is a whole other post, but I devoured those books, and I totally blame them for my current love of learning history and historical fiction. and the different dolls were all depicted as activists and feminists, and do not get me wrong here (I say on the 'taking things out of context' website) they were far from perfect with their diversity and activism, like oh jeez they did some very questionable things sometimes, but for the early 2000s and 2010s? revolutionary

the store closest to me closed a little before my birthday last year. I didn't know that it was even happening, and honestly probably still wouldn't have known if I hadn't been shopping with my friends at that mall like two weeks before my birthday since that was the only day we could all make work. Despite not having touched my dolls in a while, everything was super on sale, and I had been planning on taking Rebecca to college with me, so I figured I might buy her an outfit or something.

while the store was pretty ransacked, I was shocked and, no joke, teary-eyed over how many things they had for different cultures, different religions, and how many little girls I saw in there with big starry eyes looking at a doll that looked like them

I ended up buying a Channukkah outfit, and one of the friends I was with convinced me to, against my nature, let them buy a Lunar New Year outfit for me as well, which almost made me cry again. What really did it was seeing one of the previous Girls of the Year, Corrine Tan. Oh my gosh if they had had her when I was a little girl, she would've gone right beside Rebecca with how obsessed I was with her. I don't think I've mentioned it here before, but as a kid, I LOVED Mulan, and when I went to Disney World and the dress up boutique they had, I was DEVASTATED that they didn't have a Mulan costume. I latched onto her so hard for a very similar reason that I latched onto Rebecca so hard; because even though she wasn't the same ethnicity as me, Mulan was Asian, and so am I. I wore out I think three burned copies of that movie I watched it so often

I'm just weirdly sadder than I expected that American Girl is closing so many stores and not making as many sales I guess. I'm really fighting being a brand loyalist right now, because there are about a million other brands that make super similar dolls that I'm sure little kids all over loved, it's just always stuck with me that they at least seem to care about representation in the stories they make for these dolls

I mean, it clearly impacted me growing up, and I think it was for the better. I remember reading Addy's book being one of the first times I was exposed to the idea of children being slaves because they obviously didn't talk about that in an elementary school in the 2010s. I really just wanted to get all of my thoughts out, I've been thinking about it a lot recently since I took Rebecca to college, and I've now been hearing stories from girls who see her in my room about what doll or what toy shaped them as a child. Very excited to dress her up for Channukkah when it comes around, and tbh I've been looking for more outfits for her online. I just want her to be something I take with me throughout my life I guess. I mean, I took her everywhere when I was little, so it kinda feels wrong not to take her with me on this super big part of my life.

yeah anyways uh, if you had one of these dolls go... idk kiss em on the forehead or something. remind the toys that shaped you that you love them for what they did for you and all that. yap session over

[autisticmckennabrooks]

My Collection!

From left to right:

Blair: (eras shirt) I got her in January of 2024. She’s Truly Me 101

Rebecca Rubin: from the historical collection. I’ve had her for 14 years, give or take. Her limbs are extremely loose from years of play- to the point where she can no longer stand on her own. So my Rebecca is disabled (I imagine her having hypermobile ehlers danlos syndrome because of her loose limbs)

Little Rory: my Just Like Me doll! I named her after myself when I was a kid. I’m not sure what number she is but she’s a pleasant company doll from around 13 years ago. I’ve started giving giving her medical and mobility aids to match the ones I have/had irl

Mckenna Brooks: the 2012 girl of the year! I got her when she came out in 2012

[desertdollranch]

Spring has Sprung photo challenge Week 2: Theater

Rebecca Rubin is a natural on the stage. When her school puts on a performance of Shakespeare's comedy As You Like It, Rebecca plays the part of Rosalind, the brave heroine who flees to the forest after being dismissed from the king's court.

Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of; and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could teach me to forget a banished father, you must not learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure.

Costume made by me.

[in-pleasant-company]

I have been reading Becoming American Women: Clothing and the Jewish Immigrant Experience, 1880-1920 by Barbara A. Schreier.

I highly recommend it for anyone interested in this topic. I found the book to be written in clear, accessible language and well researched. There are lots of pictures as well. I learned a lot of new information that helped me fill in the gaps about things that weren't mentioned in the Rebecca series and answered a lot of my questions.