Lecture by Harry A. Ezraty, Esq. Mr. Ezratty will discuss Caribbean Jewry's role in Florida statehood, Alexander Hamilton's connection with the Jewish Caribbean, Jewish pirates, the first Jewish Senators to the U.S. Senate and the settlements on the American mainland founded by islanders. Jews settled in the Caribbean much before they settled in Colonial America where they had synagogues and rabbis many decades before they appeared on the American mainland and, until the War of 1812, more Jews lived in the Caribbean than on the mainland. The audience might also be interested to know that the first Jews to come to the New World didn't speak Yiddish or Polish or German, they spoke Spanish, Portuguese and Ladino!