The Making of "Jew Clubs"
Description
Why do non-Jewish football fans chant "Yid Army" or wave "Super Jews" banners-especially in support of clubs that are not Jewish? The Making of "Jew Clubs" explores how four major European football clubs-FC Bayern Munich, FK Austria Vienna, Ajax Amsterdam, and Tottenham Hotspur-came to be seen as "Jew Clubs," even though they have never officially identified as Jewish.
In this transnational study, Pavel Brunssen traces how both Jewish and non-Jewish actors perform Jewishness, antisemitism, and philosemitism within European football cultures over the 20th and 21st centuries. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources-from fan chants and matchday rituals to media portrayals and club histories-the book reveals how football stadiums have become unexpected stages for negotiating memory, identity, and historical trauma.
Offering a new approach to Holocaust memory, sports history, and Jewish studies, The Making of "Jew Clubs" shows how football cultures reflect and reshape Europe's conflicted relationship with its Jewish past.
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Pavel Brunssen is a Research Associate and Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Research Center on Antigypsyism at Heidelberg University. He is author of Antisemitsmus in Fußball-Fankulturen; editor, with Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, of Football and Discrimination: Antisemitism and Beyond; and editor of Antigypsyism and Film: Antiziganismus und Film.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. FC Bayern Munich: The "Jew Club" as Memory Culture
2. FK Austria Vienna: The "Jew Club" as Cultural Code
3. Ajax Amsterdam: The "Jew Club" as Fan Performance
4. Tottenham Hotspur: Problematizing the "Jew Club"
Conclusion
Afterword: The "Jew Clubs" after October 7
Appendix: Archives, Monuments, and Museums
Notes
Bibliography
Index
