Mendel (first name)

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Mendel is a male name.

Origin and meaning

Mendel is a Yiddish variant and pet form of the Hebrew name Menachem and means "comforter". Sometimes it is also used as a diminutive of Immanuel .

Well-known namesake

• Mendel Rosenbaum (1782–1868), rabbi
• Mendel Schie (1784–1848), banker from Dresden
• Menachem Mendel von Kotzk (1787–1859), important Hasidic rabbi of the 19th century
• Mendel Hirsch (1833–1900), German-Jewish teacher and Bible commentator
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), former head of the Chabad movement
• Mendel Szajnfeld (1922–2000), Polish Holocaust survivor
• Mendel Jackson Davis (1942–2007), American politician