Myron Michael Kaplan

November 9, 1941- August 5, 2025

Englewood, NJ

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Myron Michael Kaplan, who left us on August 5, 2025 at the age of 83,

He was born on November 9, 1941 in Chicago, IL. D. August 5, 2025 in Englewood, NJ. of advanced prostate cancer.

Myron for 55 years was a loving husband of Annette Hollander, MD, also father of Eve Kaplan-Walbrecht and Amelia Kaplan Romanowsky, devoted father-in-law to Chris Kaplan-Walbrecht and Moises Romanowsky, proud grandfather of Forest and Shira Kaplan-Walbrecht and Maia and Rafael Kaplan Romanowsky.

Myron was a brilliant polymath who read the Book of Knowledge encyclopedia for fun when he was a child growing up in Chicago. He entered Harvard College at the age of 16, graduated from Dunster House with a degree in Physics, then got a Master’s degree in English Literature from Columbia University, after writing a prize-winning thesis on the poet John Milton.

While at Columbia he became interested in the stock market, so went to work as a securities analyst and shortly after started his own hedge fund: Kaplan-Nathan. The fund was very successful for many years. After he ended the fund, Myron continued following the stock market as a private investor.

Myron and Annette were very philanthropic, especially helping organizations with seed grants that gave important boosts. He was a champion of the United Synagogue of Hoboken, building a school for a growing congregation so that young families could stay and raise their children in the Hoboken area. The school, which has educated hundreds of children, is known as the Kaplan Learning Center.

Myron and Annette also gave generously to many other Jewish, educational, and environmental causes, including helping buy a building for The Hudson School in Hoboken, NJ, donating a farm for Hazon at Isabella Freedman Retreat Center, classrooms at Jitegemee school in Kenya, an initial grant to Encounter, and many other causes.

In addition to family and work, his major interests were playing tennis and structural bodywork. He studied human anatomy and became a practitioner of Rolfing, a type of fascial manipulation that helped people recover from injuries. Many people credited him with healing their pain. Later in life he went to Italy to study with Luigi Stecco, who discovered an effective method, less painful than Rolfing, of creating more mobility in the fascia of the body. Myron wished he had more time to do Stecco work to help people heal.

He used what he learned to improve his tennis, which he enjoyed playing regularly outdoors in all seasons unless there was ice on the court. It was one of his greatest pleasures to play with his grandchildren. He also loved to watch televised sports and opine on the players’ performances.

Myron was also interested in art history and collected paintings. He loved Dutch Old Masters from the 17th century. There were so many areas in which he was skilled, and so many alternate paths he could have chosen and been extraordinarily successful.

A funeral service was held on August 7, in New Jersey, after which he was buried in a private ceremony in Riverhead, New York. Donations in his memory can be made to United Synagogue of Hoboken 115 Park Avenue, Hoboken NJ, or to the Flat Rock Brook Nature Association, 443 Van Nostrand Avenue, Englewood, NJ.