Books by Stanford J. Shaw

This rich collection of articles illustrates the range of Stanford J. Shaw's more than forty years of research. Topics covered include the nineteenth-century Tanzimat reforms, Turkey in the World Wars, and the Ottoman archives.

The neutrality maintained by Turkey during World War II allowed it to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Despite opposition, the Turkish government instructed its diplomats in Eastern Europe to provide assistance to Jews being persecuted - permitting 100,000 Jews transit through Turkey.

This book studies the role of the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey in providing refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium in medieval times and from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.