Yeah I came onto this discussion page to see how the knish o centric ness of the phrase Many cultures have variations was addressed As far as I know EVERY culture in the world has a meat stuffed in dough dish and to call those variations of a knish is laughable An eggroll is not a knish nor is a calzone Both are far older than the knish historically We just need to rewrite that whole paragraph to identify that a knish is a trivially minor and regional variation of a universal dish not the other way around And for that matter being from a highly Jewish part of San Francisco and having never seen a knish at a deli it should be rephrased that it is not found in urban areas with highly jewish populations to found in some Jewish parts of New York End of day I ve had far more piroshkis and bagel dogs than knishes