Rose Kaplan

Born in St. Petersburg, Rose Kaplan immigrated to New York City in 1892, where she attended the Training School for Nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital. During the Spanish-American War, Kaplan served as a contract nurse for the American military. In 1913, the Hadassah organization hired Kaplan, along with her colleague Rachel Landy, to establish a nursing program and social services agency in what was then the Mea Shearim settlement near the Old City of Jerusalem. Returning to New York for a brief time in 1915 due to World War I, Kaplan later received a placement with Hadassah in Alexandria, Egypt. There, despite a diagnosis of terminal cancer, she provided aid to Jewish refugees expelled from Palestine by Ottoman authorities. She died in Alexandria.