Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell is an American singer and musician who performs in Yiddish. He is an African-American convert to Judaism. After graduating from Holy Names University, he began a career as an opera singer in San Francisco and New York. After converting, he immersed himself in Yiddish songs and has performed in Yiddish both in the US and internationally, including in Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.