SAJHS

The St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society was formed on November, 2011, incorporated as a Florida non-profit corporation on March 29, 2012, and received IRS 501.C3 status on February 28, 2013. Rabbi Merrill Shapiro, formerly adjunct faculty at the University of Central Florida, serves as chairman of the Board of Directors. The organization's founding was prompted by a St. Augustine Archeological Association discussion about the possibility that hidden Jews (Conversos forced by the Spanish Inquisition to convert to Catholicism) may have been on the ships that arrived in St Augustine with Pedro Menendez in 1565.

Also known as: St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society