Milton Shain

Milton Shain is emeritus professor of historical studies at the University of Cape Town. He has written, co-authored, and co-edited over a dozen books on South African Jewish history, South African politics, and the history of antisemitism, including The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa (1994), Antisemitism (1998); The Jews in South Africa: An Illustrated History, co-authored with Richard Mendelsohn (2008); A Perfect Storm: Antisemitism in South Africa, 1930–1948 (2015), and Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations, co-edited with Christopher Browning, Susannah Heschel, and Michael Marrus (2015). In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. Milton’s latest book, Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Antisemitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present (2023), is the final volume in his trilogy on the history of antisemitism in South Africa.