Milton Shain Explained

Milton Shain
Birth Date:	1949
Nationality:	South African
Occupation:	Professor, academic
Known For:	History of South African Jews and history of antisemitism
Discipline:	History
Alma Mater:	University of Cape Town
Work Institutions:	University of Cape Town

Milton Shain (born 1949) is a South African historian. He specialises in South African Jewish history and the history of antisemitism. He was Director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town until his retirement at the end of 2014.^{[1] [2]} He sits on the advisory board of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre and in 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa.^[3]

Publications

As author

• Jewry and Cape Society: The Origins and Activities of the Jewish Board of Deputies for the Cape Colony (1983,)
• The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa (1994,)^[4]
• Antisemitism (1998,)
• Looking Back: Jews in the Struggle for Democracy and Human Rights in South Africa (2001,)
• The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History (2008,)
• A Perfect Storm (Antisemitism in South Africa 1930 - 1948) (2015,)
• Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Anti-Semitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present (2023,)^[5]

As editor

• Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict (1999,)
• Opposing voices: Liberalism and opposition in South Africa today (2006,)
• Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'Makor (2009,)
• Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations (2015,)

External links

• University of Cape Town profile
• Discussing the history of South African Jewry on TLV1
• Interview from the SAJM (part 1)
• Interview from the SAJM (part 2)

Notes and References

1. https://humanities.uct.ac.za/department-historical-studies/people-emeritus-staff/emeritus-professor-milton-shain Emeritus Professor Milton Shain
2. https://cjc.org.za/2014/11/01/an-interview-with-professor-milton-shain-on-his-retirement/ An interview with Professor Milton Shain on his retirement
3. https://ctholocaust.co.za/advisory_board/milton-shain/ Advisory Board
4. https://www.nli.org.il/en/books/NNL_ALEPH990013440350205171/NLI The roots of antisemitism in South Africa
5. https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-07-13-fascists-fabricators-and-fantasists-antisemitism-in-south-africa-from-1948-to-the-present/ Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Antisemitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present