Making of "Jew Clubs"

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.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. FC Bayern Munich: The "Jew Club" as Memory Culture2. FK Austria Vienna: The "Jew Club" as Cultural Code3. Ajax Amsterdam: The "Jew Club" as Fan Performance4. Tottenham Hotspur: Problematizing the "Jew Club"ConclusionAfterword: The "Jew Clubs" after October 7Appendix: Archives, Monuments, and MuseumsNotesBibliographyIndex

"A masterful comparative study that shows that sports is crucial to fully understand the modern Jewish experience and the history of antisemitism." - Prof. Dr. Michael Brenner"Brunssen's well-researched and theoretically astute book shows how this strange contemporary phenomenon reveals essential insights into the ongoing European effort to come to terms with a difficult past. A fascinating discussion of the role of the 'Jew' in the European imagination and a valuable contribution to the study of the politics of memory." - Maurice Samuels"A pioneering study of the intersection between memory cultures and collective identities in post-1945 European football. A fascinating exploration of the performance of Judaism in the virtually Jewish stadium and of representations of Judaism in the absence of Jews." - Raanan Rein"In this fascinating study, Brunssen tackles an intriguing phenomenon: many major European soccer clubs are viewed as Jewish, with fans who celebrate that label and fans of competing teams who insult these "Jewish clubs" with antisemitic epithets. Brunssen offers a bold and nuanced interpretation of this singular case of transnational, popular philosemitism." - Ari Joskowicz"Brunssen's work is 480 pages long, and the stories of the four clubs are comprehensively presented. But it goes far beyond that." - Moritz Ettlinger, Derstandard