anthony russell
@mordkhetzvi.bsky.social
the other day your bubbe was kibitzing about some black guy who sings in yiddish. it's still me.
he/him - half of yiddish songwriting duo Tsvey Brider - Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow 2023-25 - afrojudeopessoptimist
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he/him - half of yiddish songwriting duo Tsvey Brider - Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow 2023-25 - afrojudeopessoptimist
anthonyrussellbass.com
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ATCJS welcomes inaugural Visiting Artist in Residence, Anthony Russell
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca
Pleased and honored to be the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies University of Toronto 2025-26 inaugural Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Social Justice and Jewish Life.
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/news/atcjs-w...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Looking forward to my upcoming conversation with @emilyctamkin.bsky.social in the second installment of our 2-part @workerscircle.bsky.social interview, CRITICAL CROSSROADS:
![An promotional image for the Sept 16 program CRITICAL CROSSROADS of multidisciplinary artist Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell and author and journalist Emily Tamkin accompanied by the following information:
"Join the Workers Circle's Anthony Russell on either September 9, September 16 — or both — for a conversation on the past, present and future of American Jewish identity and politics. Attend live online to chance to win a free copy of her [Emily Tamkin's] book!"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q7p6sosfh6yd2f25yg4uu4vm/bafkreihtl5tramtfwhqqzd6qs5ag7n366eixbfys2vzrh3vye3q755nqf4@jpeg)
September 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Looking forward to my upcoming conversation with @emilyctamkin.bsky.social in the second installment of our 2-part @workerscircle.bsky.social interview, CRITICAL CROSSROADS:
Looking forward to my @workerscircle.bsky.social interview tomorrow, CRITICAL CROSSROADS with journalist and author @emilyctamkin.bsky.social, Tues 7pm ET!
September 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Looking forward to my @workerscircle.bsky.social interview tomorrow, CRITICAL CROSSROADS with journalist and author @emilyctamkin.bsky.social, Tues 7pm ET!
There are so many things I’m dying to share with you about this book, mainly: that the stories, backgrounds, social & cultural phenomena that formed every American Jew I’ve had the pleasure (and even occasionally displeasure) of knowing is accounted for here, in straightforward and engaging prose.
September 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
There are so many things I’m dying to share with you about this book, mainly: that the stories, backgrounds, social & cultural phenomena that formed every American Jew I’ve had the pleasure (and even occasionally displeasure) of knowing is accounted for here, in straightforward and engaging prose.
I'm finally back from Limmud South Africa, and just in time, too, because I've some fascinating places and spaces to be stateside in the coming weeks:
September 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm finally back from Limmud South Africa, and just in time, too, because I've some fascinating places and spaces to be stateside in the coming weeks:
VERY pleased to announce CRITICAL CROSSROADS, my 2-part @workerscircle.bsky.social interview with contributing @forward.com columnist and regular contributor at @slate.com and @washingtonpost.com—Emily Tamkin [email protected]!
August 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
VERY pleased to announce CRITICAL CROSSROADS, my 2-part @workerscircle.bsky.social interview with contributing @forward.com columnist and regular contributor at @slate.com and @washingtonpost.com—Emily Tamkin [email protected]!
Pleased to announce my participation in this year's Limmud South Africa, marking both my first time on the African continent and my first time in a primarily Litvish milieu...
Limmud South Africa – Limmud is a global organisation with bases throughout the world.
limmud.org.za
August 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pleased to announce my participation in this year's Limmud South Africa, marking both my first time on the African continent and my first time in a primarily Litvish milieu...
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I am so looking forward to having these conversations with @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social next month. Join us!
www.circle.org/events/criti...
www.circle.org/events/criti...
Critical Crossroads: In Conversation with Emily Tamkin, Part 1 — The Workers Circle
The first of a two-part conversation with Emily Tamkin, contributing columnist at the Forward and regular contributor at Slate and the Washington Post, among other publications, and author of B...
www.circle.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I am so looking forward to having these conversations with @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social next month. Join us!
www.circle.org/events/criti...
www.circle.org/events/criti...
for some reason I can't recall the attendant movie, but I *very* distinctly remember seeing the trailer to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels that preceded it and let me tell you, 4th grade Anthony was SCANDALIZED
July 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
for some reason I can't recall the attendant movie, but I *very* distinctly remember seeing the trailer to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels that preceded it and let me tell you, 4th grade Anthony was SCANDALIZED
l'après-midi dune faune
July 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
l'après-midi dune faune
muting "grok" as there are privileges to no longer being on twitter and I intend to enforce them
July 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
muting "grok" as there are privileges to no longer being on twitter and I intend to enforce them
RIP Mahler, you would've loved the pre-concert lecture I gave about you at the Atlanta Symphony last month
July 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
RIP Mahler, you would've loved the pre-concert lecture I gave about you at the Atlanta Symphony last month
say anything
::says something antisemitic::
say something else
::says something antisemitic::
say something else
July 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
say anything
::says something antisemitic::
say something else
::says something antisemitic::
say something else
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yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever
July 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
yet my poor country
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever
Shall have more vices than it had before,
More suffer, and more sundry ways than ever
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I’m starting to think that some of the people saying “stop antisemitism” mean it with the same inflection as: “Stop…Hammer Time!” Like, take a little break from what you’re doing and enjoy some antisemitism.
Trump tonight in Des Moines, talking about the estate tax:
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
"if you love them, or if you love somebody that you're leaving [a farm] to, think of that -- no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowings from, in some cases a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks, bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I’m starting to think that some of the people saying “stop antisemitism” mean it with the same inflection as: “Stop…Hammer Time!” Like, take a little break from what you’re doing and enjoy some antisemitism.
looking forward to the avalanche of explanations how the designation of "shylocks and bad people" is simultaneously misunderstood and an explicit indicator of jewish safety
July 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
looking forward to the avalanche of explanations how the designation of "shylocks and bad people" is simultaneously misunderstood and an explicit indicator of jewish safety
Pleased and honored to be the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies University of Toronto 2025-26 inaugural Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Social Justice and Jewish Life.
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/news/atcjs-w...
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/news/atcjs-w...
ATCJS welcomes inaugural Visiting Artist in Residence, Anthony Russell
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca
July 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Pleased and honored to be the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies University of Toronto 2025-26 inaugural Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Social Justice and Jewish Life.
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/news/atcjs-w...
www.jewishstudies.utoronto.ca/news/atcjs-w...
only now that I’m leaving Atlanta do I hear about JD, a Black worker who was employed by the kosher shekhter (butcher) during the week, poured drinks on Shabes and apparently did both in Yiddish
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
only now that I’m leaving Atlanta do I hear about JD, a Black worker who was employed by the kosher shekhter (butcher) during the week, poured drinks on Shabes and apparently did both in Yiddish
HBO’s The Gilded Age
June 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
HBO’s The Gilded Age
greetings from Vienna
June 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
greetings from Vienna
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18 years ago. First date with @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social at Shea Stadium.
(Unlike last night's Mets, I held on for the win.)
(Unlike last night's Mets, I held on for the win.)
June 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
18 years ago. First date with @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social at Shea Stadium.
(Unlike last night's Mets, I held on for the win.)
(Unlike last night's Mets, I held on for the win.)
Pleased to announce that I'll be joining Shtetl Fest Berlin next week in conversation with Alan Bern about how historical parallels of Black and Jewish experience combined to create culture of enigmatic richness, dynamism and influence—and how that history has informed my own work.
June 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pleased to announce that I'll be joining Shtetl Fest Berlin next week in conversation with Alan Bern about how historical parallels of Black and Jewish experience combined to create culture of enigmatic richness, dynamism and influence—and how that history has informed my own work.
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Shavuot is not going to observe itself...gut yontef!
June 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Shavuot is not going to observe itself...gut yontef!
NEXT WEEK I’m giving the Breman Museum Night pre-concert talk Thurs June 5 on the intersection of Mahler & Jewish identity for the last program of the ASO season—Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 + Mahler Symphony No. 7 feat. guest conductor Peter Oundjian & piano virtuoso Inon Barnatan:
Breman Museum Night | Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
www.aso.org
May 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
NEXT WEEK I’m giving the Breman Museum Night pre-concert talk Thurs June 5 on the intersection of Mahler & Jewish identity for the last program of the ASO season—Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 + Mahler Symphony No. 7 feat. guest conductor Peter Oundjian & piano virtuoso Inon Barnatan: