Anthony Russell

Anthony Russell is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in Yiddish culture. His album Convergence, with klezmer trio Veretski Pass, is an exploration of a century of African American and Ashkenazi Jewish music. Kosmopolitn, his recent release with Dmitri Gaskin, features their original settings of Yiddish modernist poetry for string ensemble.

A past Hadar Rising Song Fellow (2021-22) and present Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow (2023-25) Anthony has expanded his work into cultural activism through collaboration with the Workers Circle and as an essayist in a number of publications, including The Forward, Tablet Magazine, JTA, PROTOCOLS, Ayin Press and Jewish Currents. Website