Revisionist Zionism grew rapidly among Italian Jews in the late 1920s

Evidence

In the second half of the 1920s, Revisionism established itself as a growing force among Italian Zionists. The movement’s first Italian branch, the Raggruppamento d’Italia, was founded in 1925. And though in 1927 the Milan branch had only fourteen members, by 1928 the number had grown fivefold. In the next two years branches opened at different Italian universities, primarily by Jewish students from eastern Europe. In the elections for the Fifteenth Zionist Congress the Revisionists received 75 percent of the votes in Milan, and in 1929 they received more than a quarter of the votes in the entire country. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 573

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader revisionist/fascist entanglement theme in this book and to Italian Jewish history generally.