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Moses Gaster
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Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian, later British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist. Moses Gaster was an active Zionist in Romania as well as in England, where in 1899 he helped establish the English Zionist Federation.[1]
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Born | Wing Gaster (1856-09-17)17 September 1856 |
Died | 5 March 1939(1939-03-05) (aged 82) Abingdon, Berkshire, England |
Citizenship | Austrian and Romanian (after 1881); British, after 1893 |
Alma mater | University of Leipzig, Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau |
Employer(s) | University of Oxford University of Bucharest |
Title | hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London |
Spouse | Lucy Gaster (nee Friedlander) |
Children | Jack Gaster, Theodor Gaster |
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