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.

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.

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.

His literary career began in 1886 with "Teru'at Melekh Rav," an ode to Alexander II of Russia, followed by "Bat Sheva'," an epic poem, "Ezra ha-Sofer," a novel (transl.

1897; for the various criticisms which were made of Mandelkern in connection with the two editions of the concordance, and for lists of errata, see Bernhard Stade's "Zeitschrift," xviii.