Alcune riflessioni su sionismo e risorgimento italiano

Italian Risorgimento influenced some fields of Zionist movement, the last of the great national movements born in Europe. Above all, Giuseppe Mazzini�s thought, who recognized in Zionism the same nationalist and, at the same time, universalist spirit that had inspired the fight of Italian patriots for the liberation and unification of Italy, exerted a great attraction on some Zionist thinkers as Ze�ev Jabotinsky. But also Garibaldi was a source of inspiration for many Zionists. Later, Italian liberal Benedetto Musolino wrote on Jewish people�s necessity to get its unity in a National State. During the Risorgimento many Italian writers shaped the Zionist idea of a Jewish national State.