Mandelbaum
Mandelbaum is a Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname from the German Mandelbaum ‘almond tree’.[1] Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert Mandelbaum (1925 – unknown), Israeli chess player
- Allen Mandelbaum (born 1926), American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator
- David G. Mandelbaum (1911 – 1987), American anthropologist and UC Berkeley Professor who worked on society of India and Cochin Jews.
- Fredericka Mandelbaum (1818–1894), New York entrepreneur and criminal fence operator
- Frederic Morton (born Fritz Mandelbaum) (born 1924), Austrian writer
- Henryk Mandelbaum (1922–2008), holocaust survivor
- Jacques Mandelbaum (born 1958), French journalist and film critic
- Joel Mandelbaum (born 1932), microtonal musician
- Ken Mandelbaum, American columnist, critic, and author
- Kurt Mandelbaum, development economist (1905-1995)
- Michael Mandelbaum, professor of American foreign policy
- Samuel Mandelbaum (1884–1946), American lawyer and politician
- , Des Moines city council member bought and paid for by real estate developers.
Fictional characters[]
- Izzy Mandelbaum, character on Seinfeld
- Mandelbaum (aka Mandel), assistant district attorney for Manhattan in the Nero Wolfe books
See also[]
- Mandelbaum Gate, Jerusalem
- The Mandelbaum Gate, a 1965 novel by Muriel Spark
- Mandelbaum Effect, the tendency for people to focus nearby in conditions of poor visibility
References[]
- ^ Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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