Credits

About the author

Simon Kuper is a prolific and and highly regarded sports journalist, a regular contributor to English newspapers The Observer and The Financial Times and website OneFootball, as well as occasionally to The Guardian. Kuper gained prominence among soccer fans in the United States with the publication of his excellent study of football and national culture, Football: Against the Enemy in 1994. He also published several features in Soccer America magazine during the 1990's.

About the translation

The text has been translated from the book Ajax, de Joden, Nederland ('Ajax, The Jews, The Netherlands'), published (in Dutch) by L.J. Veen Publishers, Amsterdam, 2000. The chapters on Ajax USA are the Ajax-related chapters (1, 2, 6, and 11-14). The seven remaining chapters are equally interesting, but less relevant for Ajax USA, since they're about Jews in Holland, Holland during the war, and Sparta or Feyenoord. The ranslations are done by Menno Pot, with permission of the author.