Kaplan, Vichna, 1913-1986
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Name (Hebrew)
קפלן, ויכנא, 1913-1986
Name (Latin)
Kaplan, Vichna, 1913-1986
Other forms of name
Eisen, Vichna, 1913-1986
Date of birth
1913-06-06
Date of death
1986-08-20
Place of birth
Slonim (Belarus)
Place of death
New York (N.Y.)
Place of residence/headquarters
Baranavichy (Belarus)
Krakow (Poland)
Brest (Belarus) (1932 - 1937)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (1937 - 1986)
Field of activity
Jewish religious education of girls Orthodox Judaism
Associate group
Beth Jacob Schools
Beth Jacob Schools (1932 - 1932)
Occupation
Jewish educators
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Leibowitz, Danielle S. Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan, 2016:title page (Rebbetzin Vichna Kaplan) pages 3, etc. (born Rosh Chodesh Sivan [June 6] 1913 in Slonim, Belarus; daughter of Efraim Yehoshua Eisen; orphaned at a young age, she was raised by her aunt and uncle in Baranovich, Belarus; studied under Sarah Schenirer in Kraków, Poland; moved to Brest, Belarus where she taught in a Bais Yaakov school from 1932 to 1937; married Rabbi Boruch Kaplan and emigrated to the United States in 1937; in 1938 she founded the Beth Jacob school in Brooklyn, N.Y. where she served as principal and taught until her death on August 20, 1986)
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Wikipedia description:
Vichna Kaplan (1913 – August 20, 1986) was a Russian-born American Orthodox Jewish teacher and school dean who, together with her husband Rabbi Boruch Kaplan, brought the Bais Yaakov movement to America. A prize pupil of Sarah Schenirer, the founder of Bais Yaakov in Poland, Kaplan opened the first Bais Yaakov High School in Williamsburg, New York, in 1938. She later opened the first Bais Yaakov Teachers Seminary (1941), which provided teachers for all Bais Yaakov schools that subsequently opened in America and Israel.
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