A Volcano of Our Own Making

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A Volcano of Our Own Making 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, he demanded the return of Palestinian refugees and the abolition of Israeli military rule following the Nakba and the establishment of the state of Israel. Avi-ram Tzoreff uses R. Binyamin’s writings as a lens for a comprehensive critical understanding of the Zionist settler-colonial project and sheds light on patterns of resistance from the perspective of an oppositionist within the Zionist movement itself. More than an intellectual biography, this book examines larger questions about pre–World War I multinational empires, global anticolonial movements, and the intersections between religion, secularism, and nationalism.