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 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