Uri Adelman

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Uri Adelman (1955-2004) was an Israeli writer, musician, composer, and computer expert who taught at Tel Aviv University. Adelman , the author of four novels, exploited the exotic vagaries of his employer, TAU's musicology department, as a setting for his first thriller, Concerto for Spy and Orchestra. His second, Lost and Found, was a fantasy about vain ("dawwin") Ashkenazi moshavnik Mossad agents who alternate hanging around the Cinematheque with flying secretly to Cyprus, spiced with a touch of violent sadism. Written in extremely short chapters in very easy Hebrew, it sold well and has been translated. Critics in Israel called it "the perfect Israeli thriller"^{[citation needed]}. Adelman had no literary pretensions, seeing writing more as a way of supplementing his income than anything else^{[citation needed]}. He died of a heart attack in a hotel room in Ramat Aviv Gimel where he was writing his next thriller.

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• Bio at The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature