Joanne OppenheimJun 5, 20181 minKnish War coming to Essex Street Market!Looking forward to a reading and a delicious knish tasting, too! June 23rd at 11:30-ish at the Essex Street Market at 120 Essex Street. I...
Joanne OppenheimMay 31, 20181 minKnishes Make A Hit at Book Expo!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...
Joanne OppenheimMay 27, 20182 minBookmarks, Knishes and My Book Expo SigningLast 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....
Joanne OppenheimMar 19, 20181 minThank you, Guides Association of New York City! The Knish War on Rivington Street wins the 2018 ApplAt their 4th annual award ceremony, hosted by Brian Stokes Mitchell, we were delighted to win the GANYC Apple Award for Outstanding Achi...
Joanne OppenheimMar 17, 20181 minTune In to The Big Schmear PodcastBeth Schenker, the host of thebigschmear.com does a podcast all about Jewish food posting two new episodes on the 2nd and 4th Monday of e...
Joanne OppenheimJan 8, 20181 minHold the Date - We'll Celebrate! January 28th, 11 AMYes! January 28th is the anniversary of the Knish War of 1916! That's the date the story was reported in the New York Times...and that's ...
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 S...
Joanne OppenheimOct 3, 20171 minA Bookmark for Knishes!Hot off the press! Bookmarks with recipes for making knishes. I made these for the family story time at the New York Historical Society.....
Joanne OppenheimSep 20, 20171 minBenny and Solly, my special Budsies!Today, my two worlds collided in a delightful way. Weeks ago, wearing my toy reviewer hat for toyportfolio.com, I received a doll in the...
Joanne OppenheimAug 20, 20172 minWhen Knishes Were 5 Cents or When a Penny was Worth Something!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 stil...
Joanne OppenheimAug 15, 20171 minWhat's a knish? Part III thought I had exhausted all the stories about the historic knish war until yesterday, when I turned up yet another publication, the Lit...
Joanne OppenheimAug 12, 20172 minWhat’s the Plural of Knish?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 nam...
Joanne OppenheimAug 12, 20171 minSo, What Exactly is a Knish?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 word...
Joanne OppenheimAug 7, 20171 minSay it isn't so...Molly had not heard yet about The Knish War on Rivington Street
Joanne OppenheimAug 2, 20171 minThe Boy Mayor of New YorkI 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 th...
Joanne OppenheimJul 27, 20171 minSave the Date!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 ...
Joanne OppenheimJul 25, 20171 minDateline: The Knish War of 1916When 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 Rivin...
Joanne OppenheimJul 21, 20171 minMusic and the Knish WarDuring the knish war in 1916 the two knisheries featured music as attraction...this is from The Mediator, a newspaper of the day, reporti...