About 1890, Yonah Schimmel, a Romanian immigrant, used a pushcart to start his knish bakery. Sweatshop laborers carried bagels, knish and herring to work. Orthodox Jews continued to observe "kashrut" Sweatshop laborers carried bagels, knish and herring to work. The first knish bakery in America was founded in New York City in 1910. Puppeteer Hank Stohl had another puppet called Knish, which was nicer than Nosmo King. Under the alias Anne Knish, Ficke co-authored "Spectra" (1916). Mike asks Knish for the money but is refused out of principle.