Di rayze aheym / The journey home is a nine-part poem written by Irena Klepfisz in the early 1980s. It’s a powerful exploration of legacy, displacement, diaspora, queerness, feminism, secular Jewish identity, and memory. In 2025 Avi Fox-Rosen set the poem to music creating a 9 song cycle. The adaptation bridges traditional Yiddish musical forms with contemporary songwriting, creating a dialogue between past and present to imagine a vibrant future right here, in the place(s) where we live.

Avi will record this project in fall 2025, and is currently fundraising to support the album project.