1st Edition
Football and Discrimination Antisemitism and Beyond
Introduction
Pavel Brunssen and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
Part I: Prologue
1 Collective Identity and Forms of Abuse and Discrimination in Football Fan Culture: A Case Study on Antisemitism
Emma Poulton
Part II: Ressentiment
2 The Image of the “Judenklub” in Interwar European Soccer: Myth or Reality?
Rudolf Oswald
3 The Sociopolitical Roots of Antisemitism Among Football Fandom: The Real Absence and Imagined Presence of Jews in Polish Football
Jacek Burski and Wojciech Woźniak
4 Antisemitism in German Football Since the 1980s
Florian Schubert
5 Antisemitic Ressentiment-Communication Directed at RB Leipzig in German Football Fan Culture: The Third Other
Pavel Brunssen
Part III: Identity
6 Self-Directed Racialized Humor as In-Group Marker Among Migrant Players in a Professional Football Team: “Dude, Just Draw the Racist Card!”
Solvejg Wolfers
7 Racism and Interethnic Conflict in Amateur Football: The Case of Migrant Sport Clubs in Germany
Silvester Stahl
8 Struggling to Belong in the Face of Otherness: The Atlanta Fútbol Club of Buenos Aires
Raanan Rein
Part IV: (Anti-)discrimination
9 Appealing to a Common Identity: The Case of Antisemitism in Dutch Football
Joram Verhoeven and Willem Wagenaar
10 Eintracht Frankfurt Fans and the Museum: Football History, Remembrance Culture, and the Fight Against Antisemitism
Matthias Thoma and Martin Liepach
11 A Comment on Several Specific Aspects of Remembrance and Education Projects in Football
Andreas Kahrs
12 The Twofold American Exceptionalism in Soccer Fandom: Anti-Discriminatory Activism Among Organized Soccer Supporters in the United States
Markus Gerke
Part V: Epilogue
13 What Is It About Association Football – the Arrogantly Self-Appointed ‘Beautiful Game’ - That Renders Most (Though Not All) of Its Fan Cultures So Ugly?
Andrei S. Markovits
Biography
Pavel Brunssen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, USA, where he is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. His main research interests include antisemitism and antigypsyism in European football fan cultures. In 2011, Pavel cofounded a magazine called Transparent, of which he was editor in chief until 2017, that focuses on the political aspects of soccer fan cultures.
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum is a historian and Director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Germany. She is also Co-Director of the Selma-Stern- Center for Jewish Studies, Germany, and directs the Berlin branch of the Center for Research on Social Cohesion. Her fields of research include Jewish, German, and Spanish history.
