The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic

Stanford J. Shaw, NYU Press, 1991

During the emergence of the Ottoman Empire in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East (13th to the 19th century), the Ottoman Turks provided a principal source of refuge and prosperity for Jews fleeing from persecution. They also received thousands of Jews persecuted in Tzarist Russia and later provided refuge for Jews fleeing from Russian pogroms and the Nazi Holocaust.

Stanford J. Shaw, a professor of Turkish and Near Eastern History at the University of California, studies the religiously-based communities of Ottoman and Turkish Jews as well as their economic, cultural and religious lives and their relations with the Muslims and Christians among whom they lived.