Milton Shain (born 1949) is a South African historian. He specialises in South African Jewish history and the

history of antisemitism The history of antisemitism, defined as hostile actions or discrimination against Jews as a religious or ethnic group, goes back many centuries, being called "the longest hatred". Jerome Chanes identifies six stages in the historical developmen ...

. He was Director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the

University of Cape Town The University of Cape Town (UCT) (, ) is a public university, public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest univer ...

until his retirement at the end of 2014. He sits on the advisory board of the

Cape Town Holocaust Centre The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre began as Africa's first Holocaust centre founded in 1999. It has sister Centres in Johannesburg (Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre) and Durban (Durban Holocaust Centre), and together they form p ...

and in 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of South Africa The Royal Society of South Africa is a learned society composed of eminent South African scientists and academics. The society was granted its royal charter by King Edward VII in 1908, nearly a century after Capetonians first began to conceive of ...

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, ) * ''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, )Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Antisemitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present
''Daily Maverick''. 13 July 2023 ;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, )

References

External links

University of Cape Town profileDiscussing the history of South African Jewry on TLV1Interview from the SAJM (part 1)

Interview from the SAJM (part 2)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shain, Milton 1949 births Living people 20th-century South African historians 21st-century South African historians 20th-century South African writers 21st-century South African writers South African academics South African Jews Jewish historians Historians of South Africa Academic staff of the University of Cape Town University of Cape Town alumni Fellows of the Royal Society of South Africa