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The article focuses on the opposition of small Cuban- Spaniards trade sectors against the Jewish immigration to Cuba in the 1930's through out the campaigns of the right wing and the pro Spaniard press who pretended to defend the native interests against "foreign and dangerous" immigration. These campaigns followed the same idea of the economical nationalism of that period. The opposition affected the migration rules since 1939. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The massive influx of Ashkenazi to Cuba after the First World War, accelerated by the arrival of refugees from Nazi-fascism 1933-1948, continued the gradual process of integration of the Jewish community in Cuba's economic situation and positively influenced the economic outlook of the time. The article discusses how this process took place through the pages of Hebrew Almanac Habaner Lern, the most representative of Jewish publications of the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]