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The making of “Jew clubs”

BISA seminar (recorded: 21/01/26) - 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 (Heidelberg University) traces how both Jewish and non-Jewish actors perform Jewishness, antisemitism, and philosemitism within European football cultures over the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources – from fan chants and matchday rituals to media portrayals and club histories – he 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, Pavel Brunssen shows how football cultures reflect and reshape Europe’s conflicted relationship with its Jewish past.