by Merrill Shapiro | Mar 5, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Author, genealogist and award-winning educator Genie Milgrom will help the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society understand the possible Jewish roots of the founder of Palm Valley, Florida, Don Diego Espinosa during a Zoom gathering Wednesday, March 31st at 7 pm....
by Merrill Shapiro | Feb 14, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Rabbi Allen Secher was one of the 16 Rabbis arrested here in St. Augustine, Florida on June 18, 1964. The Rabbis came to St. Augustine at the request of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to help desegregate the American’s oldest European city and to help...
by Merrill Shapiro | Jan 22, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Our wonderful lecture series featuring Historian Dr. Benjamin Gampel of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America is available on You Tube at the following URLs–the following internet addresses: You Tube Links to Gampel Lectures: A 6 part introduction to...
by Merrill Shapiro | Jan 12, 2021 | Uncategorized |
Flagler College Professor John Young will speak to the St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society via Zoom on Wednesday evening, February 10th at 7 pm. Young, who was a Fellow, at the Forschungsstelle für vergleichende Ordengeschichte, University of Dresden, will address...
by Merrill Shapiro | Dec 20, 2020 | Uncategorized |
First there was Harbor Pilot Antonio Martinez Carvajal dating back to 1565. He was followed by Cristobal Carvajal of “The Company of Colonel Hernando de Uruna” in 1566. Next followed Pedro de Carvajal whose name appears on the St. Augustine Garrison List in 1578....
by Merrill Shapiro | Dec 10, 2020 | Uncategorized |
Towards the end of 1581,Luis de Carabajal y de la Cueva (c. 1537–13 February 1591) , governor of the Spanish province of Nuevo León in present-day Mexico, an alleged slave trader, and the first Spanish subject known to have entered Texas from Mexico across the lower...
