Morris Dickstein, literary critic and public intellectual, dies at 81
A longtime professor of English and theater at the City University of New York, Dickstein was one of the last survivors of a generation of “New York intellectuals."
Influential critic Morris Dickstein was born in the Lower East Side and attended Jewish schools. (photo credit: NANCY CRAMPTON VIA JTA)ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTA
