Mandelbaum
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Mandelbaum is the surname of:
- Fredericka MandelbaumFredericka MandelbaumFredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum was a New York entrepreneur and operated as a criminal fence to many of the street gangs and criminals of the city's underworld, handling between $1-5 million in stolen goods between 1862 until 1884. Like her principal rival John D...
(1818-1894), New York entrepreneur and "fence" operator - Frederic MortonFrederic MortonFrederic Morton is a Jewish Austrian writer who emigrated to the United States in 1940.Born Fritz Mandelbaum in Vienna, Morton was raised as the son of a blacksmith who had specialised in forging imperial medals. In the wake of the Anschluss of 1938 his father was arrested but later released again...
(born Fritz Mandelbaum) (born 1924), Austrian writer - Kurt MandelbaumKurt MandelbaumKurt Mandelbaum was an economist well known for his pioneering contribution in the field of the economics of development.Kurt Mandelbaum was one of a group of emigre economists from Central Europe who played a large role in founding the discipline of development economics in the UK, during and...
, Development Economists (1905-1995) - Allen MandelbaumAllen MandelbaumAllen Mandelbaum was a American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator. He was the W. R...
(born 1926), American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator - Joel MandelbaumJoel MandelbaumJoel Mandelbaum is an American music composer and teacher, best known for his use of microtonal tuning . He also has written the first Ph.D. dissertation on microtonality, in 1961. He is married to stained glass artist , and is the nephew of Abraham Edel.-Life & Music:Mandelbaum received his Ph.D...
(born 1932), microtonal musician - Henryk MandelbaumHenryk MandelbaumHenryk Mandelbaum was a survivor of the Holocaust. He was one of the prisoners in the Sonderkommando KL Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who had to work in the crematory...
(born 1922), holocaust survivor - Ken MandelbaumKen MandelbaumKen Mandelbaum is an 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 at an early age...
, American columnist, critic, and author - Izzy Mandelbaum, character on SeinfeldSeinfeldSeinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...
- Mandelbaum (aka Mandel), Assistant District Attorney for Manhattan in the Nero WolfeNero Wolfe supporting charactersNero Wolfe stories are populated by a cast of supporting characters who help sustain the sense that each story takes place in familiar surroundings.-Fritz Brenner:...
books.
See also
- Mandelbaum GateMandelbaum GateMandelbaum Gate is a former checkpoint between Israeli and Jordanian sectors of Jerusalem, just north of the western edge of the Old City along the Green Line...
, Jerusalem - The Mandelbaum GateThe Mandelbaum GateThe Mandelbaum Gate is a novel written by Scottish author Muriel Spark published in 1965 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize that year. The title refers to the Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem around which the novel is set...
, a 1965 novel by Muriel SparkMuriel SparkDame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:... - Mandelbaum EffectMandelbaum EffectThe Mandelbaum Effect is the tendency for people to focus nearby in conditions of poor visibility. It was first codified by Mandelbaum in 1960. Because dirty glass can aggravate the effect, potentially causing a pilot or driver to miss seeing an obstacle or hazard, it is a strong safety argument...
, the tendency for people to focus nearby in conditions of poor visibility.