Download or read book The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic written by Stanford J. Shaw and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman Turks provided refuge for Jews fleeing from persecution in Europe and Byzantium from the emergence of the Ottoman Empire in the 13th century until the 19th century, when it also received thousands of Jews persecuted in Tzarist Russia, and the 20th century, when it provided refuge for Jews fleeing from Russian pogroms and the Nazi holocaust. Shaw's study is the product of some 35 years of research on Ottoman history. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR