
King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust
Leslie Epstein
Isaiah Chaim Trumpelman, leader of the Judenrat, a council selecting quotas for Nazi transport trains, may or may not have saved lives from his position.
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- Coward McCann
- Year
- 1979
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- HolocaustMoral ambiguityPower and complicity
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1979)
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