Louis L. Kaplan

Career From 1930, he served as executive director of the Baltimore Board of Jewish Education. The same year, he was inaugurated as president of the Baltimore Hebrew University, which is now merged with Towson University. Kaplan was also president of the National Council for Jewish Education from 1939 to 1941, and was a member of the board of governors of Dropsie College beginning in 1940.

In 1952, Governor Theodore R. McKeldin appointed him to the University of Maryland Board of Regents, and later served as chairman for five years until stepping down in 1976. Following the Board of Regents, Kaplan served as interim chancellor of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County until the next year.

From 1975 to 1981, Louis Kaplan served as an interim rabbi at the Beth Am Synagogue in Baltimore.

Legacy In honor of Louis Kaplan, the Baltimore Hebrew University has established the Louis L. Kaplan Prize in Hebrew Literature. Moreover, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County awards the Louis L. Kaplan Scholarship to its most outstanding undergraduate student leaders.

Notable publications A New Approach to the Teaching of the Torah (1942) Justice, Not Charity: A Biography of Harry Greenstein (1967)