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'We have to find ways to live here together': Why this Israeli author wrote an 'unheroic war diary'

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JL;DR SUMMARY Israeli author Dror Mishani discusses the impact of the Gaza War on his writing, highlighting his shift from fiction to documenting wartime experiences in a diary. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Israeli SocietyGaza WarIsraeli LiteratureEmpathy In ConflictLiterary VoicePolitical EngagementWartime DiaryDror MishaniCrime FictionNormalcy Vs. Reality

Places mentioned

Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"Hello and welcome to the Haaretz podcast. I'm Alison Kaplan-Summer in Tel Aviv."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"It's called An Unheroic War Diary. It's been published in German and now in Hebrew. It's a very raw diary of your experiences during the first year of the war."
France
"I was in France. I was in a literary festival."
Switzerland
"And then the offer came from this Swiss magazine."

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