THE JEWS IN SOUTH AFRICA, an illustrated history

237pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, Jonathan Ball Publishers, Cape Town, (2008) 2026

ISBN: 9781868426485

First published in hardcover in 2008. This second updated edition was first published in paperback in 2014.

This richly illustrated history begins with the first Jewish immigrants to South Africa and traces the infant community's development to robust maturity amidst turbulent social and political currents, including the strident antisemitism of the 1930s, the moral dilemmas of the apartheid era, the turbulent transition towards a non-racial democracy, the birth of the New South Africa, and the new challenges and promise that have followed up to the present day.

Professors Richard Mendelsohn and Milton Shain teach in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. They are the co-editors of Memories, Realities and Dreams: Aspects of the South African Jewish Experience (2002). Richard Mendelson is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, and author of Sammy Marks: "The Uncrowned King of the Transvaal. Milton Shain is Director of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies. His books include Jewry and Cape Society, The Roots of Anisemitism in South Africa and Antisemitism. He also co-edited Jewries at the Frontier, Accomodation, Identity and Conflict with Sander Gilman.