Screening of award-winning documentary 'Xueta Island'

The St. Augustine Jewish Historical Society will screen the award-winning documentary film "Xueta Island" at the St. Augustine Waterworks, 184 San Marco Ave, St. Augustine, FL 32084 on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, at 4 p.m. The documentary is about the crypto-Jews among the Balearic Islands. Evidence is strong that crypto-Jews came to St. Augustine from New Smyrna Beach along with many other Menorcans in 1777. Descendants of those crypto-Jewish Menorcans live in St. Augustine to this very day.

The 63-minute screening will be followed by a commentary and discussion with Andrea White, City Archaeologist for St. Augustine.

This event is open to the public at no charge, all are welcome.

Since 2017, White has been the City Archaeologist for St. Augustine, Florida. She specializes in urban and historical archaeology with 25 years of experience in the field. She began her career in St. Augustine before spending more than a decade in New Orleans where she was the director of the Greater New Orleans Archaeology Program based at the University of New Orleans and later worked as a liaison between the Louisiana Division of Archaeology and FEMA; working with the recovery process associated with the 2005 hurricanes. She took her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Florida, earned a Master of Arts degree in Anthropology from the College of William and Mary, and holds a doctorate from the Department of Geography and Anthropology from Louisiana State University.