Joanne Oppenheim

Now this is a real hoot! Just learned about a delicious blog site with a tasty story about the Knish War. You have to visit this site to...

On Saturday I had the fun of reading The Knish War on Rivington Street for a family program that included parents, grandparents, and...

"Benny’s family opens a knishery and another opens across the street. The competition heats up. How will the Knish War end? Deliciously."...

Hot off the press! Bookmarks with recipes for making knishes. I made these for the family story time at the New York Historical...

Looking forward to watching WLIW at 7:30 tonight to see Hugs and Knishes. I just might have to make some knishes to snack on while I...

It's true! We stopped at the Tenement Museum Bookstore on Orchard Street yesterday and had a happy surprise! Smack dab center on the long...

Budsies.com created dolls that look just like Solly and Benny, two boys in my new storybook, The Knish War on Rivington Street. They'll...

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...

Miles asked his Grandpa James (aka as "BaBa") to read his G-G's* The Knish War on Rivington Street. Miles must be my youngest fan and I...

My good friend, Jean Marzollo, the author of many wonderful books, including the well loved series of I Spy books, recently read The...

In 1916 the Literary Digest, a popular magazine, reported that on the Lower East Side the newest “most popular viand” of the day was none...

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'm happy to share this joyful review. Horn Book's reviewer came up with a rhyme that I missed...a perfect description of the story: "A...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jon Davis, the illustrator of The Knish War on Rivington Street. That's his self-portrait to the left....

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...