Milton Shain

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. 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 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, )

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, )