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The making of "Jew clubs"
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- 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.
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- ISBN
- 9780253073389
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press, (02 September 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 mm
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