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In A Volcano of Our Own Making, Avi-ram Tzoreff explores the biography, writings, and activism of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman (1880–1957), a prominent figure in the history of modern Jewish thought and in the movements for binationalism in Palestine. Known to his readers as Rabbi Binyamin, Radler-Feldman continued to demand the return of Palestinian refugees and the abolition of Israeli military rule following the Nakba and the establishment of the state of Israel. In this book, Tzoreff introduces the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of R. Binyamin’s theoretical reflections on Jewish tradition, Hebrew literature, governance, civilization, and ethnicity. More than an intellectual biography, this book uses R. Binyamin as a lens for a comprehensive, critical understanding of the Zionist settler-colonial project and sheds light on patterns of resistance to it from the perspective of an oppositionist from within the Zionist movement itself. In doing so, Tzoreff examines larger questions about pre–World War I multinational empires, global anti-colonial movements, and the intersections between religion, secularism, and nationalism.
Avi-ram Tzoreff is a historian focusing on the history of Jewish-Arab relations in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, and the political and cultural history of Jews in Ottoman Iraq and Habsburg Galicia.
"A pioneering book that highlights the transnational and transregional nature of modern Jewish thought. Impressively interdisciplinary, A Volcano of Our Own Making will make us think differently about Judaism, Zionism, and the relationships between the two."—Orit Bashkin, author of Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
"Yehoshua Radler-Feldman (R. Binyamin) is one of the most important early Zionist ideologues most Jews have never heard of. Avi-ram Tzoreff’s A Volcano of Our Own Making offers a searing and deeply researched analysis of the Zionist debates in the early Yishuv and R. Binyamin’s belief that eschewing the Arab population, the Arabic language, and Islam would corrode the moral fiber of the Zionist project and undermine its future. A must-read for anyone truly interested in early Zionism in the Land."—Shaul Magid, author of The Scourge of Jewish Nationalism: Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum's Anti-Zionist Thought