Joanne Oppenheim

Just back from Book Expo book signing! Maybe the knish is going to be the new hot food! What fun! Sorry we didn't get a photo of the line...

Last year, just before The Knish War on Rivington Street went to press, I re-learned the lesson about being careful of what you wish for....

At their 4th annual award ceremony, hosted by Brian Stokes Mitchell, we were delighted to win the GANYC Apple Award for Outstanding...

Beth Schenker, the host of thebigschmear.com does a podcast all about Jewish food posting two new episodes on the 2nd and 4th Monday of...

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...

In 1916 when the knish war heated up, when Benny and Solly’s fathers were cutting the knish prices one cent at a time, the penny was...

I thought I had exhausted all the stories about the historic knish war until yesterday, when I turned up yet another publication, the...

Back in the day, when the New York Times wrote about the Knish War down on Rivington Street (Jan. 1916) the writer (not identified by...

Every once in a while I run into someone who has yet to taste a knish...sad, but true. "What is a knish?" they ask. Are there really...

Molly had not heard yet about The Knish War on Rivington Street

I searched everywhere for facts on how the knish war of 1916 ended, but I found no answer. But a picture book needs an ending...enter...

Join author Joanne Oppenheim for a reading and Q&A session on her new book, The Knish War on Rivington Street at the New York Historical...

When I write a book, I like to think about what was happening in the bigger world outside of the story. Working on the Knish War on...

During the knish war in 1916 the two knisheries featured music as attraction...this is from The Mediator, a newspaper of the day,...

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If you haven't been following my blog, let me explain. I'm posting ideas for posters that didn't make it into THE KNISH WAR ON RIVINGTON...

When you write a picture book, you only have 32 pages, so there's never room for all the golden words and great images in your head. ...