Is That Barbie’s Iconic Jewish Inventor In the ‘Barbie’ Movie Trailer? – Kveller

The „Barbie” trailer is here, and the Kveller team is completely obsessed with it – and also wants to remind you that Barbie is Jewish. Or Jew-ish, at the very least. That’s because the doll’s iconic inventor, Ruth Handler, was Jewish. Handler was born in 1916 to Jewish immigrant parents.