- Hardcover: 438 pages
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (26 Mar 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333582349
- ISBN-13: 978-0333582343
- Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 14.3 x 3.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,609,560 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The neutrality maintained by Turkey during most of the Second World War enabled it to rescue thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in the Nazi-occupied or collaborating countries of Europe. This book shows how in France, the Turkish consuls in Paris and Marseilles intervened to protect Turkish Jews from application of anti-Jewish laws introduced both by the German occupying authorities and the Vichy government and rescued them from concentration camps, getting them off trains destined for the extermination chambers in the East, and arranging train caravans and other special transportation to take them through Nazi-occupied territory to safety in Turkey. 'an important and unique addition to the vast scholarship available on that tragic era' Rabbi Abraham Cooper
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STANFORD J. SHAW is Professor of Turkish and Judeo-Turkish History at the University of California in Los Angeles. He was previously Assistant and Associate Professor of Turkish Language and History at Harvard University and Director of its Near Eastern Summer Program. Professor Shaw pioneered the use of Ottoman archives in Istanbul while writing numerous books and articles on Ottoman and Turkish History and society including Between Old and New: The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Selim III and History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. He has served as President of the Turkish Studies Association of North America, was the founder and first editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and has been an elected Honorary Member of the Turkish Historical Society of Ankara, Turkey since 1981 and a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Turkish Studies, Washington DC since 1983. He received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim and Ford foundations and two major research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been awarded honorary degrees by Harvard Unievraity and the Bosporus University (Istanbul), and served as Fulbright Hayes Research Professor at the Bosporus University, Istanbul, in 1990-1991.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I am a great fan of Stanford Shaw as he is one of the few Turkish historians who bother to use Turkish sources actually written in Turkish rather than 3rd rate translations or 3rd hand information. This book however, is sadly not what it says on the cover.
In reality the book should have been titled "How Turkey protected its Jewish citizens in France during Nazi occupation" As this is pretty much what the book is about.
While it is extremely commendable how Turkey behaved in not abandoning its citizens at a time when many other nations acted less honourably I think the title of this book is slightly misleading. The book essentially covers the efforts of Turkish ambassadors in France to not only repatriate Jewish Turks living in France but also in rescuing them from internment camps and even re-granting citizenship to Jewish Turks who had previously abandoned their Turkish citizenship for a French one and were now left in a perilous position.
The book is well documented and the author quotes from letters and interviews he had with the said Turkish ambassador at the time. Shaw also continues his commendable effort in bringing a more human face to history. He points out for example the conditions within the internment camps and the national differences that emerged between the Jews who were held there.
Many historians I feel ignore this important issue and simply lump all Jewish people together as though they all thought the same, were culturally the same and held the same level of belief in Judaism. Shaw points out the bullying and intimidation carried out by Jewish guards in the camps and how differing groups were treated according to their cultural or 'ethnic' background.
An interesting book but I feel the title is a little misleading.
In reality the book should have been titled "How Turkey protected its Jewish citizens in France during Nazi occupation" As this is pretty much what the book is about.
While it is extremely commendable how Turkey behaved in not abandoning its citizens at a time when many other nations acted less honourably I think the title of this book is slightly misleading. The book essentially covers the efforts of Turkish ambassadors in France to not only repatriate Jewish Turks living in France but also in rescuing them from internment camps and even re-granting citizenship to Jewish Turks who had previously abandoned their Turkish citizenship for a French one and were now left in a perilous position.
The book is well documented and the author quotes from letters and interviews he had with the said Turkish ambassador at the time. Shaw also continues his commendable effort in bringing a more human face to history. He points out for example the conditions within the internment camps and the national differences that emerged between the Jews who were held there.
Many historians I feel ignore this important issue and simply lump all Jewish people together as though they all thought the same, were culturally the same and held the same level of belief in Judaism. Shaw points out the bullying and intimidation carried out by Jewish guards in the camps and how differing groups were treated according to their cultural or 'ethnic' background.
An interesting book but I feel the title is a little misleading.
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I am a great fan of Stanford Shaw as he is one of the few Turkish historians who bother to use Turkish sources actually written in Turkish rather than 3rd rate translations or 3rd hand information. This book however, is sadly not what it says on the cover.
In reality the book should have been titled "How Turkey protected its Jewish citizens in France during Nazi occupation" As this is pretty much what the book is about.
While it is extremely commendable how Turkey behaved in not abandoning its citizens at a time when many other nations acted less honourably I think the title of this book is slightly misleading. The book essentially covers the efforts of Turkish ambassadors in France to not only repatriate Jewish Turks living in France but also in rescuing them from internment camps and even re-granting citizenship to Jewish Turks who had previously abandoned their Turkish citizenship for a French one and were now left in a perilous position.
The book is well documented and the author quotes from letters and interviews he had with the said Turkish ambassador at the time. Shaw also continues his commendable effort in bringing a more human face to history. He points out for example the conditions within the internment camps and the national differences that emerged between the Jews who were held there.
Many historians I feel ignore this important issue and simply lump all Jewish people together as though they all thought the same, were culturally the same and held the same level of belief in Judaism. Shaw points out the bullying and intimidation carried out by Jewish guards in the camps and how differing groups were treated according to their cultural or 'ethnic' background.
An interesting book but I feel the title is a little misleading.
In reality the book should have been titled "How Turkey protected its Jewish citizens in France during Nazi occupation" As this is pretty much what the book is about.
While it is extremely commendable how Turkey behaved in not abandoning its citizens at a time when many other nations acted less honourably I think the title of this book is slightly misleading. The book essentially covers the efforts of Turkish ambassadors in France to not only repatriate Jewish Turks living in France but also in rescuing them from internment camps and even re-granting citizenship to Jewish Turks who had previously abandoned their Turkish citizenship for a French one and were now left in a perilous position.
The book is well documented and the author quotes from letters and interviews he had with the said Turkish ambassador at the time. Shaw also continues his commendable effort in bringing a more human face to history. He points out for example the conditions within the internment camps and the national differences that emerged between the Jews who were held there.
Many historians I feel ignore this important issue and simply lump all Jewish people together as though they all thought the same, were culturally the same and held the same level of belief in Judaism. Shaw points out the bullying and intimidation carried out by Jewish guards in the camps and how differing groups were treated according to their cultural or 'ethnic' background.
An interesting book but I feel the title is a little misleading.
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