Oren Shafir: The writer not the other guy
"I’ve lived in Denmark for 15 years now, and I still feel like an outsider. But, hey, that’s not so strange. After all, I am Jewish; we Jews are perennial outsiders..." Read A Cosmopolite Abroad, my personal essay (originally published in Rambam)
Short stories
Small Truths and Other Lies is a novella and short story collection inspired by Oren's family's incredible tales of Jewish life in the diaspora and in Israel.
Read a sample short-short story
Dead Man's Boots: Set in the first Israeli Lebanon war
Or view the book on Amazon or on Smashwords (for formats other than Kindle).
Poems, essays, humor
3 personal poems on Connotation press
Conversations with My Dog (comic strip)
Two humor pieces in PF: a woman's spoof magazine
Freaky flash fiction
Very short (from 50-500 word) short stories that will freak you out, like this one:
Plays
Oren wrote and produced three musical comedies (with music by Thune Lindberg), which were performed in Copenhagen.
Watch a scene from his play Romeo and Juliet: The Sequel, which received the European Association for Jewish Culture performing arts grant, below: