Eliyho Matz
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Eliyho Matz

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Eliyho Matz was born in Tel Aviv in 1948, during the War of Independence. His parents had made their way to Israel only a few months prior, after an unsuccessful earlier attempt as passengers aboard the ill-fated ship Exodus. Matz's dad passed on his love of reading to his young son with the famous book by Kazantzakis Freedom or Death, forever influencing Eliyho's life. After serving in a Paratrooper unit in the Israeli Army, Matz began his undergraduate studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and then went on to the University of Massachusetts. There he began a ten-year connection with historian David S. Wyman, as his student and as his research assistant. It was through Wyman that he then connected up with freedom-fighter Peter H. Bergson (a.k.a. Hillel Kook), whom he worked with, conversed with, and interviewed in his office in New York City as well as in Israel over many years until Bergson’s death in 2001. The connection with these two very resolute individuals formed the springboard for Matz’s forty-five year research journey that led him to graduate school at Yeshiva University and the Graduate Center of NY, to numerous archives of both Jewish organizations and US government facilities, to WWII newspaper microfilm, to personal interviews, and to ongoing exploration and inquiry that led to this book. When he is not immersed in his research and writing, Matz can be found gaining inspiration in his garden in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.
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