Uri Adelman

Uri Adelman (1958 in Ramat Gan-2004 in Tel Aviv) was an Israeli writer, musician, composer, and computer expert who taught at Tel Aviv University.Was born and raised in Ramat Gan, in an old family (8th generation) from Jerusalem, with German Jewish roots. 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"Fact|date=February 2007. Adelman had no literary pretensions, seeing writing more as a way of supplementing his income than anything elseFact|date=February 2007. 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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* [http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=3 Bio at The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature]