Testing cosmospolitan tolerance: port jews in Cape Town during the late victorian and edwardian years

Cape Town in the late Victirian and Edwardian periods provides an interesting non-European location for testing the wider applicability of the Sorkin-Dubin 'port Jew' model, including the notion that port cities provide a peculiarly tolerant and welcoming environment, rooted in mercantile imperatives and cosmopolitanism.