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View photographs from the Jews in New Cities conference, held in July 2019.  

The Kaplan Centre conducted a study of the Cape Town Jewish community that involved collecting and analysing communal data from a variety of organisations and conducting 770 face-to-face interviews with a random sample of community members. The finding

View photographs from the reopening of Kaplan Centre in May 2019.

While Denis Goldberg never built SA’s own Suez Canal, the UCT honorary doctorate recipient certainly became one of the country’s finest nation-builders.

The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town is in the process of conducting the Jewish Community Survey of South Africa (www.jcssa2019.co.za).

"Milton Shain, emeritus professor of history at the University of Cape Town, specializing in the history of Jews and anti-Semitism in South Africa

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 genesi

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 stu

The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at UCT and The SA Jewish Museum, invite you to a talk by Dr. Barry Kosmin.

The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies at UCT and The SA Jewish Museum, invite you to a talk by Irwin Manoim.

Associate Professor Adam Mendelsohn, Director of Kaplan Centre, has curated an exhibition in New York City running from 28 October 2016 until 26 February 2017.

The Kaplan Centre, in collaboration with others, recently held a very successful international conference titled Jews in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.