Abstract
Historians studying the Zionist press have concluded that the Zionist movement did not respond to antisemitism in Germany in the Weimar period. The author maintains that Zionists were far from complacent, but cooperation with the Centralverein - recognized experts in defense activity, but the Zionists' "assimilationist" opponents - was for them impossible. By 1932, the Zionists admitted that Palestine could not solve the immediate problem, and they offered mainly psychological and moral help.