Kaplan, Mendel, 1936-2009

found: His From shtetl to steelmaking, 1979:t.p. (Mendel Kaplan) p. 72 (b. 1936)

found: Ancient Jerusalem revealed, 2019:page x (Mendel Israel Kaplan; born in South Africa in 1936; died 2009; he was a lawyer by training and an industrialist by profession; he was the author of a number of books, including From Shtetl to Steelmaking (1979), Jewish Roots in the South African Economy (1986), From Steelmaking to Shtetl (1989), Founders and Followers (1991), In Search of a Minyan (1996), Seeking Tzedakah (2000), Riteve (2000), Dear Son (2009), and numerous articles and letters)

found: Wikipedia, September 12, 2019(Mendel Kaplan (philanthropist); Mendel Kaplan (1936-2009) was a South African Jewish industrialist executive in the firm Cape Gate, philanthropist and community activist; Kaplan was born in South Africa; he received a degree in law from the University of Cape Town in 1958 and an MBA from Columbia University in 1960; he was the honorary president of Keren Hayesod and a former chairman of the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors; he financed numerous philanthropic projects in South Africa, Israel and Jewish communities around the world; in 1980, he founded the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town; in 2000, he established the South African Jewish Museum; he was an Israeli citizen and owned two homes in Israel; he died 19 November 2009)

found: pressreader.com, September 12, 2019(Mendel Kaplan; born Cape Town, June 16, 1936; died Cape Town, November 19, 2009; he and his brother Robert expanded their father's ironware factory into a steel manufacturing conglomerate, one of South Africa's largest private companies)