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A Danish Jew in West Africa
Wulf Joseph Wulff Biography And Letters 1836-1842
Winsnes, Selena Axelrod
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 Γ± 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.
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