Making of &quote;Jew Clubs&quote; (eBook)

Performing Jewishness and Antisemitism in European Football and Fan Cultures

Pavel Brunssen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
480 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-07340-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Why do non-Jewish football fans chant "e;Yid Army"e; or wave "e;Super Jews"e; banners-especially in support of clubs that are not Jewish? The Making of "e;Jew Clubs"e; explores how four major European football clubs-FC Bayern Munich, FK Austria Vienna, Ajax Amsterdam, and Tottenham Hotspur-came to be seen as "e;Jew Clubs,"e; 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 "e;Jew Clubs"e; shows how football cultures reflect and reshape Europe's conflicted relationship with its Jewish past.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.9.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Antisemitism
• Zusatzinfo: 52 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Ajax Amsterdam • austria • England • fc bayern munich • Football • football fans • Germany • Jewish football clubs • Jewish Identity • Netherlands • Sports • Tottenham Hotspur
• ISBN-10: 0-253-07340-5 / 0253073405
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-07340-2 / 9780253073402