A knish ( /ˈknɪʃ/) or knysh is an Eastern European, and Jewish snack food made popular in America by Jewish immigrants, eaten widely by Jewish and non-Jewish people.
Jewish immigrants who arrived from Ukraine sometime around 1900 brought knishes to America. Knish is a Yiddish word that was derived from the Ukrainian "knysh", meaning "a kind of bun." It is a baked or fried dumpling made of flaky dough with filling. The first knish bakery was found...
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