Elihu Rose (born March 30, 1933)[1] is an American real estate developer, academic, and philanthropist.
[2][3] Rose was born to a Jewish family[3] in Brooklyn, NY, one of three sons of Belle and Samuel B.
[6] After graduating from Yale University in 1954, he served in the U.S. Air Force; and in 1956, he joined the family real estate development company, Rose Associates, as a partner.
[2] In 1978, he graduated from New York University with a Ph.D in International Relations and started a teaching military history in addition to his real estate activities.
[6] They have been staunch supporters of the Jewish Museum, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the New York Historical Society, the New York-Presbyterian Fund, the NYU Urology Research Program, the Horace Mann School, Rockefeller University, New York University, the Juilliard School, the Harlem Educational Activities Fund, United Way of New York, The Doe Fund (dedicated to helping the homeless men achieve independence and self-sufficiency), and the UJA-Federation of New York.