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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 . 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 .1
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