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man, opera and ballet ppl are out here literally minding their own damn business w/o having to catch strays from would-be charismatic movie pishers, give me a break

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NEW merch alert: just in time for Purim, a "Yiddish is Dying" Inspirational Wall Calendar!

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"Please circle the responses that feel most accurate for you, and have a miserable or happy Purim!" (3/3)

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not trying to be emo on the timeline, but somehow purim gets less and less diverting each passing year

the folk songs I sing where "zikh" and "dikh" are "zeyekh" and "deyekh" are w i l d

ugh, why did I just read this in The Dick Cavett Show announcer's voice

shkoyekh!

you used to have to write a pamphlet, a treatise, a poem, novel or a play if you fundamentally disagreed with someone, the fact that we call whatever the hell this is going on today "discourse" is laughable

this harry potter reboot *is* rather gritty n'est-ce pas

Three Prose Poems and a Nigun - Anthony Russell I have an affinity with a unicorn. Horned and white, it presents two features equally beyond my reach.

I opine (poetically; YMMV) on this in "Oyslender" ayinpress.org/three-prose-...

Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, commenting on the Super Bowl in a newspaper column: “Sports? The Super what? I didn't know there was a Super Bowl. My dear friend, you're asking the wrong person. I have never heard of a Super Bowl. I am so far from it that you really shouldn't ask me. It's as if I would ask you what is happening at the planet Mars. The president will watch? The president knows some thing about football? Everything you tell me now, I hear for the first time in my life. Sunday will be like any other day, doing my work.”

me, re: Super Bowl:

Thanks! It will be open to the public and I'll be posting all the deets once they're up!

A picture of Mitchell J. Gerstein Artist in Residence Anthony Russell wearing a flat cap, knit scarf and fur collared winter coat looking askance amid an immense pile of smutty snow whose sojourn in Toronto will surely last longer than his own.

I've finally arrived from San Diego CA to Toronto ON. It is exceedingly cold and there are prodigious piles of snow everywhere. Despite knowing well how Winter works (formerly a resident of upstate NY and MA) my capacity for both childlike wonder and regional bemusement remains unimpeded...

"No one back then would be so historically careless as to mischaracterize the Holocaust as a dispute over immigration policy. Jews weren’t immigrants in Europe. They were law-abiding citizens, productive members of German, Austrian, French, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian, Belgian, Greek, Italian and Dutch societies—standouts in nearly every category of human accomplishment. They had nothing in common with Venezuelan gang members, Colombian cartels, and Somali welfare scammers."

This line that the right-wing is committing itself to - ICE is nothing like the Gestapo, because Jews were European citizens and immigrants today are not - is so misleading. Jews were stripped of citizenship under Reich Laws, just as immigrants today are having legal status arbitrarily rescinded.

In the late 1920s, a few years before Sinners takes place, the white A.P. Carter and his Black comrade Lesley Riddle drove all over the Blue Ridge Mountains gathering traditional folk songs. Both men loved these traditional tunes and devoted their lives to playing them, but only the white one, along with his band the Carter Family, will have his name on them forever. Coogler understands this tension intimately and renders its complexities with care. Vampire movies have to be able to make a case for the monstrous half-life their villains offer, where you’ll never be allowed to see the sun or die, but you will get something irresistible in return. In Sinners the case is easy to make: these white vampires don’t hate you for being Black, they won’t call the cops on you, they love your music, and they want to join you in “fellowship,” a word they’ll repeat to eerie effect more than once. The culture they offer, with its jigs and reels and ballads, is full and thrilling in its own way. Even after turning most of the juke joint’s visitors into monsters, Remmick will still warn the remaining humans that the Klan are after them. His proposal for them may be evil, but in the Jim Crow Delta, avoiding evil is not as simple as merely avoiding the vampires, and staying safe is not as simple as clinging to your humanity.

i wrote about the extended metaphor that is the music in Sinners
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friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

that said, I suppose you can't spell "artist" without AI 😒

Tweet from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges."

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

yes yes europeans hate us but it’s so much more alarming when it’s from the driver’s seat of a bus

History echoes. From a 1968 Call article to this week’s headlines in Mississippi, the message is clear: standing against #antisemitism — and standing together — still matters.
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Anthony Russell: Judaism Unbound Episode 516 - Jewish Music is Jewish Text — Judaism Unbound Judaism Unbound kicks off the new year by hearkening back to our recent mini-series exploring Jewish music: past, present, and future. Anthony Russell , a multidisciplinary artist working in the ...

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I had the opportunity to discuss the deeply idiosyncratic impulses and associations that inform my work in Yiddish—along with some rants/reflections on the relationship between music and Jewishness—with @lexaphus.bsky.social and @danlibenson.bsky.social for @judaismunbound.bsky.social podcast.

secret history by a mile

I confess to thinking of your book during that entire sequence

Yiddish, Race, and Antiracism: A Five-Session Course with Anthony Russell — The Workers Circle 7:30 – 9:00 PM ET: January 14, 20, 27; February 4, 11 How did previous generations of Yiddish kulturtuers (cultural activists) engage American systemic racism through their work? Can these eff...

Yiddish, Race, and Antiracism: A Survey
Five Wednesdays, January 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11 at 7:30 PM ET

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This class includes screenings of in-depth interviews with leading scholars, translators and academics about what inspires their work with the Yiddish language materials covered in class.  Works of literature discussed in class will be available in both English translation and yidishe oysyes.

Yiddish, Race, & Antiracism: A Survey—How did previous generations of Yiddish kulturtuers (cultural activists) engage with American systemic racism through their work? Join me in an ongoing conversation engaging with the past and present of racism and antiracism in Yiddish language, lit and text.

This class presents an interactive opportunity to engage with the distinct similarities and differences of Ashkenazi Jewish and Black American historical experience and how those experiences continue to intersect and resonate today. January 13, 20 & 27 at 6–7:30pm PT newlehrhaus.org/program/anth...