Milton Shain

Professor Milton Shain has written several books on South African Jewish history and the history of antisemitism, among them Jewry and Cape Society; The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa; Antisemitism; The Jews in South Africa. An Illustrated History with Richard Mendelsohn, and with Sander L Gilman, co-edited Jewries at the Frontier, Accommodation, Identity and Conflict. He is Emeritus Professor of Historical Studies at UCT and the former Director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for...See more

Professor Milton Shain has written several books on South African Jewish history and the history of antisemitism, among them Jewry and Cape Society; The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa; Antisemitism; The Jews in South Africa. An Illustrated History with Richard Mendelsohn, and with Sander L Gilman, co-edited Jewries at the Frontier, Accommodation, Identity and Conflict. He is Emeritus Professor of Historical Studies at UCT and the former Director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at UCT. See less