Stanford J. Shaw collection

Stanford J. Shaw collection 

Stanford Jay Shaw (1930-2006) was an American historian who specialized in Turkey, and more specifically, the history of the latter years of the Ottoman Empire, the early years of the Turkish Republic, and the history of Turkish Jews. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, he later studied at Stanford University and Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. from the latter university in 1958. He taught at Harvard University (1958-1968), the University of California, Los Angeles (1968-1997), and at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey (1999-2006). Among his published works are History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (Cambridge University Press, 1976-1977), co-authored by Ezel Kural Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic (Macmillan/NYU Press, 1991), and Turkey and the Holocaust: Turkey's Role in Rescuing Turkish and European Jewry from Nazi Persecution, 1933-1945 (Macmillan/NYU Press, 1992). Shaw also served as the founding co-editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. 

Stanford J. Shaw collection