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A Danish Jew in West Africa

von Winsnes, Selena Axelrod

Biography History Non-Fiction

ISBN

9789988550660

Verlag

Sub-Saharan Publishers

Erschienen

16.01.2014

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Biography History Jewish History Danish History West African History 19th Century Colonialism Cultural Identity Racial Hierarchy Euro-African Relations Letters Personal Correspondence Jews in Africa Danish Colonialism Cross-Cultural Experience Marginalization Discrimination Biographical Essay Historical Letters Translation African Studies European History Jewish Studies Danish Literature African Literature Historical Biography

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Wulff's life history is of considerable interest in itself. In her biographical essay (Part I) Selena Axelrod Winsnes portrays him as a 'marginal man': being a Jew in Denmark at the beginning of the 19th century was to some extent an uphill struggle for those who sought public recognition, and Wulff did not escape discrimination in his administrative career at Christiansborg either, although special circumstances allowed him to hold important positions, and yet, only for the short term. Paradoxically, on his arrival to the Gold Coast Wulff - as a Jew - was placed in a middle position in the racial hierarchy dominating the mind-set of his superiors in Copenhagen ñ between Africans and Europeans. In many respects he shared the fate of Euro-Africans, straddling two worlds and being 'sealed off' from the top echelons of the European establishments on the Coast. This book comprises two parts. The first is a biographical presentation of Wulff Joseph Wulff , a Danish Jew. It is an essay concerning the last six years of his life, spent on the Gold Coast of West Africa, based on letters he wrote to his family in Denmark. Those letters were published in 1917 as Da Guinea var Dansk [When Guinea was Danish], by Carl Behrens, a member of his family in Denmark. The second part of the book is an edited translation of the letters from Danish into English.