Mandelbaum is a Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname from the German ''Mandelbaum'' ‘almond tree’.
[Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press] Notable people with the surname include:
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Albert Mandelbaum
Albert Mandelbaum (1925 – unknown) was an Israeli chess player.
Biography
In the early 1950s Albert Mandelbaum was one of the leading Israeli chess players. He played mainly in domestic chess tournaments. In 1951, Albert Mandelbaum participated ...
(1925–unknown), Israeli chess player
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Allen Mandelbaum
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Allen Mandelbaum (May 4, 1926 – October 27, 2011) was a Jewish American professor of literature and the humanities, poet, and translator from Classical Greek, Latin and Italian. His translations of classic works gained him numerous awar ...
(1926–2011), American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator
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David G. Mandelbaum
David Goodman Mandelbaum (August 22, 1911, in Chicago – April 19, 1987) was an American anthropologist.
He majored in anthropology at Northwestern University, studying with Melville J. Herskovits. His major published work dealt with the Plains ...
(1911–1987), American anthropologist
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Fredericka Mandelbaum (1825–1894), New York entrepreneur and criminal fence operator
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Frederic Morton
Frederic Morton (October 5, 1924 – April 20, 2015) was an Austrian-born American writer.
Life
Born Fritz Mandelbaum in Vienna, Morton was the son of a blacksmith who specialized in forging (manufacturing) imperial medals. In the wake of the ...
(born Fritz Mandelbaum) (1924–2015), Austrian writer
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Henryk Mandelbaum (1922–2008), Holocaust survivor
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Jacques Mandelbaum
Jacques Mandelbaum (born 1 May 1958, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is a French journalist and film critic, currently working for the newspaper ''Le Monde'' which he joined in 1995. He is the author of numerous works on the cinema including a biographical ...
(born 1958), French journalist and film critic
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Joel Mandelbaum
Mayer Joel Mandelbaum (born October 12, 1932) is an American music composer and teacher, best known for his use of microtonal tuning (notably just intonation and 19 equal temperament and the 31 equal temperament). He wrote the first Ph.D. disserta ...
(born 1932), microtonal musician
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Ken Mandelbaum
Ken Mandelbaum is a Jewish American columnist, critic, and author whose primary field of expertise is musical theatre.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Mandelbaum was introduced to Broadway musical theatre by his parents and grandparents ...
, American columnist, critic, and author
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Kurt Mandelbaum
Kurt Mandelbaum (13 November 1904 – 28 September 1995) was a German-British economist well known for his pioneering contribution in the field of the economics of development.
Kurt Mandelbaum (also known as Kurt Martin) was one of a group of ...
(1904–1995), development economist
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Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum (born 1946) is a professor and director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He has written a number of books on American foreign policy and edited ...
(born 1946), professor of American foreign policy
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Samuel Mandelbaum
Samuel Mandelbaum (September 20, 1884 – November 20, 1946) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Education and career
Born on September 20, 1884, in the Russian Empire ...
(1884–1946), American lawyer and politician
Fictional characters
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Izzy Mandelbaum, character on ''Seinfeld''
*Mandelbaum (aka Mandel), assistant district attorney for Manhattan in the
Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe is a brilliant, obese and eccentric fictional armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in ...
books
See also
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Mandelbaum Gate
The Mandelbaum Gate is a former checkpoint between the Israeli and Jordanian sectors of Jerusalem, just north of the western edge of the Old City along the Green Line. The first checkpoint for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan/Israel Mixed Armist ...
, Jerusalem
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The Mandelbaum Gate'', a 1965 novel by Muriel Spark
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Mandelbaum Effect, the tendency for people to focus nearby in conditions of poor visibility
References
Jewish surnames
{{surname, Mandelbaum
Surnames from ornamental names