About Uri Adelman
Lived 1958 – 2004 (aged 45). Uri Adelman was an Israeli writer and composer.
Uri Adelman (; September 3, 1958 – August 5, 2004) was an Israeli writer, musician, composer, computer expert, and professor at Tel Aviv University.
Biography Adelman was born and raised in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, the 8th generation of a German-Jewish family hailing from Jerusalem. Adelman used the TAU's musicology department where he worked as a setting for his first thriller novel, Concerto for Spy and Orchestra. His second novel, Lost and Found, was a fantasy novel about Ashkenazi moshavnik Mossad agents, who alternated frequenting the Jerusalem Cinematheque with flying secretly to Cyprus. Written using short chapters and clear, direct Hebrew, the novels were bestsellers in Israel, culminating in translations to German, Greek and Japanese. Critics in Israel praised Lost and Found as "the perfect Israeli thriller", and his writing has received favourable comparisons with John Grisham.
In addition to 4 novels, Adelman wrote computer textbooks for the general public. He died from a heart attack in a hotel room in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, where he was writing his next thriller.
Works
Concerto for Spy and Orchestra (Hebrew: קונצ'רטו למרגל ולתזמורת) Lost and Found (Hebrew: משוואה עם נעלם) Tropic of Venus (Hebrew: בסימן ונוס) The Graveyard Shift (Hebrew: שעות מתות)
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Who was Uri Adelman?
Israeli writer, musician, computer expert and professor (1958-2004)
When was Uri Adelman born?
Uri Adelman was born on 3 September 1958 in Ramat Gan.
When did Uri Adelman die?
Uri Adelman died on 5 August 2004 in Tel Aviv.
What was Uri Adelman's occupation?
Uri Adelman was a writer and composer.
What nationality was Uri Adelman?
Uri Adelman was Israeli.
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