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  1. King of the Jews
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter One
  4. The Golden Age
  5. I
  6. II
  7. III
  8. Chapter Two
  9. The Elder
  10. I
  11. II
  12. III
  13. Chapter Three
  14. Smuggling
  15. I
  16. II
  17. Chapter Four
  18. The Wedding
  19. I
  20. II
  21. III
  22. IV
  23. Chapter Five
  24. The Five Day Strike
  25. I
  26. II
  27. III
  28. Chapter Six
  29. A Decision for the Judenrat
  30. I
  31. II
  32. Chapter Seven
  33. The Yellow Bus
  34. I
  35. II
  36. III
  37. Chapter Eight
  38. Makbet
  39. I
  40. II
  41. III
  42. Chapter Nine
  43. The Pulley
  44. I
  45. II
  46. III
  47. IV
  48. V
  49. Chapter Ten
  50. Fighters
  51. I
  52. II
  53. III
  54. Chapter Eleven
  55. Urania
  56. I
  57. II
  58. III
  59. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  60. ALSO BY LESLIE EPSTEIN

His articles and stories have appeared in such places as Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Playboy, Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Tikkun, Partisan Review, Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. In addition to the Rhodes Scholarship, he has received many honors, including a Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowship, an award for Distinction in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a residency at the Rockefeller Institute at Bellagio, and various grants from the NEA.

For many years he has been the director of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. He lives with his wife, Ilene, in Brookline, Massachusetts. They are the parents of three children—Anya, Paul, and Theo.

ALSO BY LESLIE EPSTEIN

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The Steinway Quintet Plus Four
P. D. Kimerakov

Copyright © 1979 Leslie Epstein
Reprinted by arrangement with the author.

This work was completed with the generous support of The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Parts of this novel appeared in somewhat different form in Esquire.
Salmagundi, Bennington Review, and Partisan Review.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1979 by
Coward. McCann & Geoghehan.

Handsel Books paperback, 2003

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may he reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording. or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from Other Press LLC, except in the case of brief quotations in reviews for inclusion in a magazine, newspaper, or broadcast. For information write to Other Press LLC, 2 Park Avenue, 24th Floor, New York, NY 10016. Or visit our Web site: www.otherpress.com.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the printed edition as follows:

Epstein. Leslie.
King of the Jews / by Leslie Epstein.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-59051-432-0
1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Fiction. 2. Poland-Fiction.
3. Jews—Fiction. I. Title
PS3555.P655K56 2003
813′.54—dc21

2003004885

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