Matthew Silver

Matthew Mark Silver (July 28, 1961 - November 9, 2025) was an Israeli historian, professor at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and at the University of Haifa. His main subjects were 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. and Gershon Agron.

Books 2022: The History of Galilee, 1538–1949: Mysticism, Modernization, and War 2020: Zionism and the Melting Pot: Preachers, Pioneers, and Modern Jewish Politics (Jews and Judaism: History and Culture), hardcover: 2021: The History of Galilee, 47 BCE to 1260 CE: From Josephus and Jesus to the Crusades 2019: Navigating US Immigration in Modern Times: A Review and Analysis of Work Visas, hardcover: 2013: Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America: A Biography, 2010: Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding Story, 2006: First Contact: Origins of the American-Israeli Connection; Halutzim from America During the Palestine Mandate,