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By Ezra Glinter November 3, 2011

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.”

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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.

Ezra Glinter is the critic-at-large of the Forward.

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