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Benny Morris relates how the Yishuv’s Jewish press reacted to Hitler’s take over of Germany. He also deals with the issue of the Jewish-German communities’ defense needs after January 30th, 1933. Although the Yishuv’s ambitions are huge, its actual means are tiny. In its confrontation with Nazi Germany, Askenazi identity which overwhelmingly dominated the local scene, was limited in its efforts by the obsessive concepts of “Culture”. It is precisely for the sake of Culture, that Haaretz then often wrote about “the other Germany”, constantly invoking such cultural highlights as Kant, Goethe and Schiller, becoming blinded to the possibility of open persecution.This is why the Yishuv’s Left, with the singular exception of Berl Katznelson, closed its eyes and refused to see. On the other hand, Itamar Ben Avi (first-born son of E. Ben Yehuda) and Zeev Jabotinsky, more attuned to national and European realities, showed, sometimes but not always, proof of more lucidity.