Europe's "Jew Clubs:" On Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich and Austria Vienna with Pavel Brunssen

About this episode

The episode explores the historical and cultural significance of clubs like Tottenham Hotspur and Ajax Amsterdam as they relate to Jewish identity and antisemitism in soccer.

What do Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich and Austria Vienna have in common? They all, for better, or for worse, have come to be seen as “Jew Clubs” throughout their history. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Sometimes the club embraced it, often it didn’t. "Jew Clubs" - not Jewish clubs, not founded as a Jewish sports society or anything like that. But clubs that have become a canvas for the performance of Jewishness, of antisemitism and also of philosemitism. What does that say...

People in this episode

Host: Philipp Gollner

Guest: Pavel Brunssen

Topics covered

• Jewish identity
• antisemitism
• philosemitism
• soccer culture
• European football history

Keywords

• Jew Clubs
• Tottenham Hotspur
• Ajax Amsterdam
• Bayern Munich
• Austria Vienna
• antisemitism
• philosemitism
• soccer history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax Amsterdam, Bayern Munich, Austria Vienna

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