Milton Shain

Milton Shain 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. 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.

Publications

;As authorJewry and Cape Society: The Origins and Activities of the Jewish Board of Deputies for the Cape Colony The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa Antisemitism Looking Back: Jews in the Struggle for Democracy and Human Rights in South Africa The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History A Perfect Storm Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Anti-Semitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present
;As editorJewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict Opposing voices: Liberalism and opposition in South Africa today Place and Displacement in Jewish History and Memory: Zakor V'Makor

''Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations''