

When 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...

What's a knish? Part II
I thought I had exhausted all the stories about the historic knish war until yesterday, when I turned up yet another publication, the...


What’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...


So, 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...

Say it isn't so...
Molly had not heard yet about The Knish War on Rivington Street


The Boy Mayor of New York
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...


Save 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...

Dateline: The Knish War of 1916
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...

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