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"Milton Shain, emeritus professor of history at the University of Cape Town, specializing in the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in South Africa, tells the very different story of a Jewish settlement in the New World."
Rachel Bloch House, the home of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, will reopen in July 2018 after extensive renovations. The Centre's staff can be contacted by phone.
Join Michael Stanislawski, Professor of History at Columbia University and visiting Professor at the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies, for a six-part lecture series that explores and critically interrogates the genesis, history, and impact of the Zionist movement.
The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at UCT conducted a groundbreaking study that involved interviews with a representative sample of Urban Black South Africans in Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town. This is a selection of findings from the larger study. Analysis and interpretation of these findings is available in the full report and in the ten page summary version. Click here to access the report, summary, survey questionnaire, and raw data.