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Cover of The Knish War on Rivington Street | Photo: Albert Whitman & Company
The Knish War on Rivington Street by Joanne Oppenheim ’60 was chosen as a Sydney Taylor Notable Book for 2018, it was a PJ Library selection and won the Guides of New York Apple Award for Fiction. It's a picture book, for 5-8's, a work of historic fiction based on a true event that happened on the Lower East Side in 1916. “I'm having good fun sharing the story with family groups around the country in person and via skype.” You can learn more at her website.