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Tagged: Ottoman Jews

Beyond the Boundaries of “The Land of the Deer”: R. Binyamin between Jewish and Arab Geographies, and the Critique of the Zionist-Colonial Connection

Avi-ram Tzoreff’s article, published in Issue 82 (Summer 2020) of the Jerusalem Quarterly, revisits the writings and ideas of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman, an observant orthodox Jew, author, essayist, and anti-colonial Zionist,...

Provincializing European Jewry: R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad and Ottoman Modernity – Interview with Avi-ram Tzoreff

Avi-ram Tzoreff is a EUME Fellow at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien in 2018-19. He wrote a dissertation entitled Jewish-Arab Coexistence against the Secular Discourse: Theology, Politics and Literature in the writings of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman (R. Binyamin, 1880-1957) at the department of Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva. His main research interests are Jewish-Arab relations in Ottoman and Mandated Palestine, the cultural and political history of Iraqi Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the cultural and political history of Jews in Galicia.