Mandelbaum

Mandelbaum is a Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname from the German Mandelbaum ‘almond tree’. Notable people with the surname include:

• Albert Mandelbaum (1925–unknown), Israeli chess player
• Allen Mandelbaum (1926–2011), American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator
• David Mandelbaum (born 1935), American Democratic party politician
• David G. Mandelbaum (1911–1987), American anthropologist
• Fredericka Mandelbaum (1825–1894), New York entrepreneur and criminal fence operator
• Frederic Morton (born Fritz Mandelbaum) (1924–2015), 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 (1904–1995), development economist
• Michael Mandelbaum (born 1946), professor of American foreign policy
• Samuel Mandelbaum (1884–1946), American lawyer and politician

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

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