David Yeshayahu Silberbusch

Galician Jewish writer (1854–1936)
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David Yeshayahu Silberbusch
Native name
דוד ישעיהו זילברבוש
Born(1854-11-22)22 November 1854
Zaleshtshik, Eastern Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Died1 March 1936(1936-03-01) (aged 81)
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Mandatory Palestine
Resting placeTrumpeldor Cemetery
Pen nameIsh Yehudi (איש יהודי)

David Yeshayahu Silberbusch (Yiddish: דוד ישעיהו זילבּערבּוש, Hebrew: דוד ישעיהו זִילבֶּרבּוּש, romanized: David Yeshayahu Zilberbush; (1854-11-22)22 November 1854 – (1936-03-01)1 March 1936) was a Galician Hebrew and Yiddish writer and journalist.

Biography

David Yeshayahu Silberbusch was born in Zaleshtshik, Eastern Galicia, where he received a traditional Jewish education. He married the daughter of a wealthy Jewish landowner at the age of twenty but became a widower within six months.[1] he married a second time in Kolomaye while living as a guest of his in-laws and studying Hebrew and German literature.[2] He published his first work in Peretz Smolenskin's journal Ha-Mabit [he] in 1878.

Silberbusch later lived in Botoșani, Lemberg, and Vienna, settling in Palestine in 1934. He died there three years later.[3]

References

  1. ^ Fogel, Joshua (15 August 2016). "Dovid-Yeshaye Zilberbush (David Isaiah Silberbusch)". Yiddish Leksikon. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. ^ Rejzen, Zalman (1926). Leksikon fun der Yidisher literatur, prese un filologye [Lexicon of Yiddish Literature, Press, and Philology] (in Yiddish). Vol. 1. Vilna: B. Kletzkin. pp. 1071–1074.
  3. ^ Tidhar, David (1947). "David Yeshayahu Zilberbush" דוד ישעיהו זילברבוש. Encyclopedia of the Founders and Builders of Israel (in Hebrew). Vol. 10. Estate of David Tidhar and Touro College Libraries. p. 3613.
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