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