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Oppenheim, Joanne

The Knish War on Rivington Street

32 pp. | Whitman | August, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8075-4182-1 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Jon Davis. Benny's family's baked knishes sell like hotcakes on New York's Lower East Side, but then the Tisches move in across the street with their fried knishes. A knish competisch ensues: prices drop, stores expand, and each proprietor hires musicians; the noise level becomes so bad that the mayor gets involved. Lively drawings show the early-twentieth-century street clogged with eager knish consumers. Knish recipes appended.

Reviewer: Shoshana Flax | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2017