The Edward K. Kaplan Family Photo Gallery

NB: The photo descriptions are available under the Gallery.

1. Ed’s parents, Emily and Kivie Kaplan, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. Kivie Kaplan gives Ed a Life Membership in the NAACP as his Bar Mitzvah gift. Boston, 1955.
3. Ed (first on the right) with his father, Kivie Kaplan (third on the right), at the staging hangar before the Selma-Montgomery Civil Rights March as part of the UAHC delegation. March, 1965.
4. Ed and Janna married on 7 December, 1986.
5. Ed with Janna at the Leningrad Synagogue gate during Ed’s research trip for the Heschel biography. Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1989.
6. Ed with Janna in Leningrad, boarding the train to Berlin, when Ed was doing research for the Heschel biography. Leningrad, Soviet Union, 1989.
7. The Kaplan family, summer on Martha’s Vineyard, 1993.
8. The Kaplan Family at Jeremy Kaplan’s wedding, Lake Placid, NY, December, 2002.
9. The Kaplan Family at Jeremy Kaplan’s wedding, Lake Placid, NY, December, 2002.
10. Ed at home in Newton, MA, 2003.
11. Janna onboard NASA’s Reduced Gravity aircraft sending Ed a HAPPY FATHER’S DAY message. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, June, 2006.
12. Ed with Janna, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, 2007.
13. Jeremy, Ed, Sima, and Aaron Kaplan at NAACP Centennial Convention, where Kivie Kaplan was honoured, and Ed gave a plenary address, July, 2009.
14. Janna, Ed, Jeremy, Sima, and Aaron Kaplan in New York, Thanksgiving, 2009.
15. Janna, Aaron, Sima, and Ed visiting Volgograd, Russia, where Janna grew up, 2010.
16. Ed with his children and grandchildren at his 70^th birthday celebration. Boston, March, 2012.
17. Ed with Janna, Martha’s Vineyard, summer, 2013.
18. Ed with Janna in Paris, 2014.
19. Ed and Janna with Marvin Gilmore, a childhood and life-long friend, a Chevalier of France’s Legion of Honour, at his 90^th birthday celebration. Boston, 2014.
20. Ed with Aaron, Janna, and Sima at his Retirement Reception at Brandeis University, June, 2015.
21. The Kaplan Family at Aaron Kaplan’s wedding at Martha’s Vineyard, September, 2016.
22. Ed with Janna in Morocco, 2019.
23. The Kaplan Family at Sima’s wedding, Martha’s Vineyard, June, 2022.
24. The Kivie Kaplan bronze plaque at the Embrace Boston memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. Boston, 13 January, 2023.
25. Ed’s children, Kivie Kaplan’s grandchildren, Aaron, Jeremy, and Sima Kaplan, at the Embrace Boston Kivie Kaplan plaque dedication. Boston, 13 January, 2023.
26. Ed at home with Sima, Jeremy, and Aaron, after the Kivie Kaplan plaque dedication. Jeremy is wearing the Embrace Boston Commemorative Medal posthumously awarded to Kivie Kaplan, 13 January, 2023.