The World's Largest Collection of Herzl Memorabilia

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Jun 28, 2023 · 49m

My wife and I have close friends in Toronto, so (pre-Covid), a combination of Shalem College work and visits to friends used to get me to Canada pretty regularly. And over the years, I’d come to know David Matlow, a respected attorney at Goodmans LLP, who, I was told, owed the world’s largest collection of Herzl memorabilia.

But somehow, I’d never gotten around to seeing the collection. Until one Shabbat after, while taking a talk with another friend named David, David said to me, “that’s Matlow’s house. Do you want to peek at the collection?”

I did, and we did, but I was thoroughly…