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Scope and Content: Fonds consists of two World War II photographs, one postcard of Tempio Israelitico, and Rome synagogue, photocopies of Rabbi Rose letters to Canadian Jewish Congress,1982, news clippings and biographical overview of his World War II chaplaincy.

Scope and Content: Fonds consists of two World War II photographs, one postcard of Tempio Israelitico, and Rome synagogue, photocopies of Rabbi Rose letters to Canadian Jewish Congress,1982, news clippings and biographical overview of his World War II chaplaincy.

History / Biographical: Rabbi Isaac Rose was the son of Louis Rose. His parents operated a pawn shop on the Byward market and the family, including a sister Hannah, lived upstairs over the store. He received his early education at York Street Public School and religious education at the Ottawa Talmud Torah in the late 1920's and early 1930's. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Yeshiva College in 1938, was ordained by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in 1940 and obtained a Master of Arts degree from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Rabbi Rose served as a Jewish Chaplin to the Eighth Army and the First Canadian Corps during World War II. He enlisted with the rank of Captain in 1943. After the liberation of Holland, Captain Rose was active in setting up a Jewish chaplain's center in Amsterdam that served Jewish survivors returning from the camps or from their hiding places during the war, as well as Allied soldiers. Back in Canada in 1947, Rabbi Rose married Leisje (Leesha) Bornstijn, a Jewish member of the Dutch underground whom he had met in Holland at the end of the war. Subsequently, he became the Executive-Director of Young Judea with an office in Montreal and worked as an editor of the Jewish Horizon of the Religious Zionists of America and Mizpeh, a journal of religious Zionist thought in Israel. In 1973 Rabbi Rose and Leisje immigrated to Israel.

Notes: 1. Rabbi Rose wrote to Rabbi Fasman, Ottawa in 1944 ...I have discovered a marvellous library in one of the ancient synagogues on the Adriatic neglected until now. I am trying to salvage some of the more valuable books... may be able to trade some food for some of them. Our High Holiday Services were most successful. Even had the army movies grinding away before and after ... I am going to visit Florence and then Rome in a few weeks and will write you then.” Source: Ottawa Jewish Bulletin, Nov. 1, 1944.