Die Judenbuche

"Die Judenbuche"
Short story by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
TranslatorLionel and Doris Thomas
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Publication
Published inMorgenblatt für gebildete Stände
PublisherCotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
Publication date1842
Published in English1958

Die Judenbuche, translated as The Jew's Beech or The Jew's Beech-Tree, is a German novella written by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and first published in 1842. The story about the unsolved murder of a Jewish citizen in a village in the Westphalian mountains was based on true events.