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Spanish Jews in Colonial Florida - In-person Event & Livestreamed on YouTube
Larry Kanter Lecture Series in Memory of Jack Coleman
Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, Founder and Chairman of the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society, looks at the presence of people of Jewish descent living, during the 16th century in what we know today as Florida, 89 years before landing in New Amsterdam. Pulling from the research of Dr. Stanley Hordes, formerly the State Historian of New Mexico and researcher at the University of Mexico’s Latin American Institute, as well as Roger L. Martinez-Dávila, Associate Professor of History & Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, this talk will examine genealogy records, evidence that helps to identify the south’s earliest Jews of descent, conversos, and crypto-Jews.
This program is sponsored by Larry Kanter in memory of Jack Coleman
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