Salomon Mandelkern

Salomon Mandelkern (Hebrew: שלמה מנדלקרן; 1846 in Mlyniv, now in Volhynian Governorate – March 24, 1902 in Vienna; pseudonym Mindaloff) was a Russian-Jewish lexicographer, poet and author.^[1][2]

He was educated as a Talmudist. After his father's death he went to Dubno (he was then fourteen), where he continued his Talmudical studies. He became associated with the Ḥasidim in that community and with their "rabbi," Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, with whose son David he spent some time studying Jewish philosophy and Cabala.

After his marriage he went to Wilna, entered its rabbinical school, and graduated as a rabbi.

Mandelkern subsequently studied Oriental languages at St. Petersburg University, where he was awarded a gold medal for an essay on the parallel passages of the Bible. In 1873 he became assistant rabbi at Odessa, where he was the first to deliver sermons in Russian, and where he studied law at the university. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon him by the University of Jena.

About 1880 he settled in Leipzig and occupied himself with literary work and with teaching. In 1900 he visited the United States; he returned to Leipzig in 1901, and was visiting Vienna when he suddenly became ill and died in the Jewish hospital of that city.