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Anthony Russell is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in Yiddish culture. His album CONVERGENCE (2018), with klezmer trio Veretski Pass, is an exploration of a century of African American and Ashkenazi Jewish music. KOSMOPOLITN (2022), 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.