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  • A posthumous Amy Winehouse album is set to be released in December.

  • The British music label EMI is being sold to Russian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik.

  • For the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, Nextbook Press has created an interactive version of Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus.”

  • Nathaniel Rabkin takes a look at an Israeli TV series about an Orthodox mobster and his family.

  • Lee Siegel peers into the correspondence between T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx.

  • Americana Exchange profiles Izzy Young, legendary proprietor of Greenwich Village’s Folklore Center.

  • Iraj Isaac Rahmim revisits the Jewish Tehran of his youth.

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