Heym Un Veg (Between Home and The Way)

Concert In-Person at Soapbox Gallery and Livestreamed Co-sponsored by The Neighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life, Soapbox Gallery, and YIVO  In-Person Admission: $25 Livestream Admission: Pay what you can ($10 minimum)

Hailed as the contemporary Jewish “songbird of Ukraine,” Zhenya Lopatnik’s songs stir the soul and awaken memories even for those too young to remember. Heym Un Veg (Between Home and The Way) features Lopatnic with long-time collaborator Oren Neiman, an Israeli-born, New York based guitarist along with the multi-instrumentalists Ira Khonen Temple and Ivan Barenboim.

Heym Un Veg (Between Home and The Way) tells an illuminating tale, weaving Lopatnik’s original compositions with Ukrainian folk songs. The show is a theatrical journey through time with storytelling that conveys life in Ukraine and, particularly, in the Ukrainian Jewish Community. The performance threads together cultures and generations through Lopatnik’s rich repertoire of Yiddish songs and the poetry of prominent Ukrainian Yiddish Poets.