This is a brief and lucid report of two Jewish patients treated by a Jewish analyst. The patients used their cultural background as ego resistances manifested in the transference. Other authors have pointed out that excessive attention to cultural factors in psychoanalysis is to be avoided. Natterson suggests that neglect of cultural issues may leave unanalyzed pockets of resistance. This article is directed to those analysts who assert that cultural factors are of no importance to the analyst especially when he apparently has no curiosity or knowledge about the patient's cultural origins.