Moses Gaster

Moses Gaster
Moses Gaster in 1904
Born	(1856-09-17)17 September 1856 Bucharest, Wallachia
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

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]