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Aharon's Jewish Books and Judaica
600 South Holly Street Suite 103
Denver, Colorado 80246
303-322-7345
800-830-8660
Map to Aharon's Jewish Books and Judaica
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Rosy cheeked Raisa with her chestnut braids and beautiful
green eyes gazes in wonder toward her future. Raisa is one of several
dolls in the Ellis Island Collection of Porcelain Dolls whose features,
costumes and stories were inspired by the collected memories of the
descendants of Eastern European Jews who immigrated to America through
Ellis Island in the late 1800s. Raisa, soon to be known as Rose in
America, began her long journey in Mainz, Germany. Her travel costume
consists of a silky, loden green dress with an overskirt of tan. The
same tan fabric has been used to make a collar on the dress. The collar
has been trimmed with bit of silky lace. The bodice of the dress sports
two decorative buttons. Over her dress, she wears a dirndl like,
sleeveless, wine-colored jumper of floral printed corduroy. At the
front, wine-colored lacing closes the bodice of her dirndl. The slightly
puffed half sleeves of her dress are trimmed with natural colored cotton
lace. The same lace trims her dirndl. Raisa's pale, wine-colored, straw
hat, which she wears at a jaunty angle, has a bow fashioned from the
same silky loden green fabric of her dress. The rim of the hat is
trimmed with the same fabric as her corduroy dirndl. Threaded on a pale
cream ribbon, Raisa wears a parting gift from her grandparents -- a
small gold toned Star of David. More corduroy has been used for her
little carryall in which she totes her favorite teddy bear. The color of
the bear is tan. Short, white socks peek over Raisa's medium brown
faux-suede high topped shoes. A crinoline provides a bit of pouf to her
skirts. Beneath her skirts, Raisa wears a pair of knee-length
pantaloons. The doll has a porcelain head, arms, hands, legs and feet
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