Menahem Manus Bendetsohn (Yiddish: מנחם מאנוש בענדעטסזאהן, romanized: Menaḥem Manush Bendeṭszohn; 1817 – March 20, 1888) was a Russian educator and Hebrew writer.
In 1853, he returned to Russia and went on to teach for over two decades at the government school for Jewish children in Grodno, and for a short time in Volkovisk.
Among his notable pupils were the Hebrew poet Constantin Shapiro, the lawyer L. Kupernik [ru], and the jurist and writer D. Slonimski.
[1] His exceptional memory allowed him to learn the Scriptures by heart as well as German classics such as Schiller.
As a writer with a strong sense of aesthetics and style, he expressed disapproval of the German-influenced Hebrew used by the younger generation of Maskilim, and severely criticized it in his preface to Alluf Ne'urim.