This publication "The Samaritans" is now digitallty available thanks to the University Library of the Goethe University in Franfurt. Written by Moses Gaster (1856-1939) born Romania, emigrated to England, Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community of London, of which he wrote a history.. Are the Samaritans a Jewish or a non-Jewish sect? is the central question that Gaster tries to answer.