New York doll
The American Girl company has created a Jewish doll, and according to this article, it was NINE YEARS IN THE MAKING.
Why?
Every detail of her background, her appearance and whom she would be if she were actually alive, is a result of a painstaking multiyear effort by American Girl to get this character and her marketing right….
…[A] Jewish doll presents her own set of potential pitfalls. While other dolls represented ethnic backgrounds with distinctive visual characteristics, what constitutes a Jewish girl’s appearance is much more open for debate.
The goal is that no one be offended and that Jewish and non-Jewish little girls alike will want to play tenement house with their new toy…
The ADL’s Abe Foxman approves:
“It’s not offensive. It’s sensitive,” he said. “How about that? Most of the time these things fall into stereotypes which border on the offensive.”
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