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Morris Dickstein

Morris Dickstein, distinguished professor emeritus of English and theater at the Graduate Center of the City University in New York, is the author, most recently, of Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression. His memoir, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education, will be published by Liveright in February.

  • New Haven, 1966.(Photo courtesy Liveright Publishing )
    New Haven, 1966.(Photo courtesy Liveright Publishing )
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    The Zionist Dream in the Poconos

    An excerpt from the new memoir ‘Why Not Say What Happened’ conjures lost summer worlds

    byMorris Dickstein
  • 'There was something irrepressibly childlike about him, a sense of wonder he never gave up.'
    'There was something irrepressibly childlike about him, a sense of wonder he never gave up.'
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    My Cousin Harry: A Jewish Story of the Greatest Generation

    Through a portrait of a war vet who loved children, a glimpse of a lost Jewish-American world

    byMorris Dickstein
  • (Margarita Korol)
    (Margarita Korol)
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    Growing Pains: Delmore Schwartz, Forgotten Genius

    The writer Delmore Schwartz is largely forgotten today, but he once captured the anxieties and hopes of the Jewish intellectuals of the 1930s and stunned his generation with his poems and short stories

    byMorris Dickstein
  • (Library of Congress)
    (Library of Congress)
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    Why Are Jews Liberals?

    A symposium

    byRuth R. Wisse,Morris Dickstein,Jonah Goldberg,Todd Gitlin,andRon Radosh
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