About: Matthew Silver

Matthew Mark Silver is an Israeli historian, professor at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and at the University of Haifa. His main interests are Israel studies and modern Jewish history. M.M. Silver was born in the United States, graduated from the Cornell University, and emigrated to Israel in the mid 1980s. He earned his Ph.D. in Modern Jewish History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is notable as an author of books on this topic and chronicling personalities in Modern Jewish History, notably Leon Uris, Louis Marshall and Gershon Agron.