Feliks Solomonovich Kandel is a Russian Jewish writer, residing in Jerusalem, Israel.
11 Facts About Felix Kandel
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Felix Kandel was born in 1932 in Moscow, Soviet Union to a Jewish family.
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Between 1955 and 1962 Felix Kandel was designing missile engines for the Soviet military.
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In 1963 Felix Kandel quit his military job and became a professional freelance writer.
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Felix Kandel wrote plays, scripts for motion pictures, and published two books of short stories.
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Felix Kandel continued writing prose, some of which was published in the West while he was still in the Soviet Union.
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Felix Kandel was warned by two KGB agents to stop his activities, but he refused.
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Felix Kandel specialized in programs on Jewish history and culture.
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Felix Kandel is a very well known author among Russian-language readers, especially in the West.
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Since 1987 Felix Kandel initiated an ambitious project of writing a popular history of the Jews that lived on the territories comprising the Russian Empire.
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Felix Kandel received numerous literary awards, and is a member of the Israeli PEN Club since 1990.