Joanne OppenheimDec 15, 20171 minThe Algemeiner Likes Knishes!Algemeiner featured this article by Alice Burdick Schweiger on their site this week: Children’s Book Explores the Great ‘Knish War’ Who knows, maybe Knishes are about to become a new food fad! Try them -- you'll like them. I added the recipes for home made knishes in the book. Maybe the next book should be about jelly donuts...then I would have an excuse to try making them. Now let's see what kind of conflict can I dream up about jelly donuts? Where's the drama in donuts? May
Joanne OppenheimDec 11, 20171 minTablet Magazine's Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2017Excited to say...The Knish War on Rivington Street is one of 18 books on the Tablet Magazine's Best Jewish Children's Books of 2017 list.
Joanne OppenheimDec 8, 20171 minKnishes Reach Michigan!A few month ago, on the day I presented The Knish War on Rivington Street at the New York Historical Society, I was lucky to meet Alice Schweiger, who writes for the Jewish press. It appeared in the Detroit Jewish News today. Click here to read the whole article.
Joanne OppenheimDec 7, 20171 minA Clipping from Dear Miss Breed's PapersI was looking for another December 7th story from my Dear Miss Breed manuscript. What I found is a clipping Clara Breed saved, from Eleanor Roosevelt's newspaper column, MY DAY. If only we had more Eleanor Roosevelts in our world today! This is what she wrote soon after December 7th... “… the great mass of our people, stemming from these various national ties, must not feel that they have suddenly ceased to be Americans. “This is, perhaps, the greatest test this country has e
Joanne OppenheimDec 7, 20172 minRemembering December 7th...Today you will hear many stories about December 7th. This entry from the diary of a teen-aged boy tells of a drama that is about to unfold for Japanese Americans, all of whom suddenly became suspect because they looked like the enemy. Stanley Hayami was a sophomore, an honor student at Mark Keppel High in Alhambra, California. His family runs a nursery in San Gabriel. He hoped to go to Berkeley like his older brother and sister. An aspiring artist and writer, this is a drawi
