Moses Gaster

Moses Gaster (17 September 1856 – 5 March 1939) was a Romanian-born Jewish-British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation, London, and a Hebrew linguist. He was the father of Jack and Theodor Gaster and the grandfather of Marghanita Laski. He was also son-in-law to Michael Friedländer and father-in-law to Neville Laski.

Personal facts

Moses Gaster
Birth dateSeptember 17, 1856
Birth place
Bucharest , Wallachia
Religion
Judaism
Citizenship
British nationality law
Date of deathMarch 05, 1939
Place of death
Abingdon-on-Thames
Education
Leipzig University
Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau
Children
Jack Gaster
Theodor Gaster
Titlehakham of the Spanish and Portuguese congregation London

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External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN44034408
  2. http://manchester.ac.uk/library/genizah
  3. http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/frames/fulldesc?inst_id=89&coll_id=3327&full=1
  4. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelplang/hebrew/manuscripts/gastercoll/index.html
  5. http://www.euro.ubbcluj.ro/studiaj/sj2007/11.MOSES%20GASTER%20AND%20RONETTI-ROMAN%20-%20TWO%20ROMANIAN%20JEWISH%20INTELLECTUALS%20-%20FACING%20MODERNIZATION%20-%20LEON%20VOLOVICI.PDF
  6. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=81&letter=G
  7. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3622623?uid=3739560&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21100885015671
  8. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13501679808577884#preview
  9. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/special-coll/mb-gaster.shtml
  10. http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Gaster_Moses