The Jews' Beech Tree: A Moral Portrait from Mountainous Westphalia

· University Press of America
Ebook
180
Pages

About this ebook

The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, arguably one of Germany’s greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews’ Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read today as it was in 1842. Featuring the original German and the translated English side-by-side, this text also includes three critical introductions and two additional poetry translations.

About the author

Jolyon Timothy Hughes is an associate professor of German at Colorado State University. Dr. Hughes teaches translation, German for business, history of Germanic languages, German phonetics and German culture up to 1871. He has developed and maintained study abroad programs for summer, semester and year in Hanover, Berlin, Bamberg, Freiburg, Germany and Graz, Austria.

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