David Yeshayahu Silberbusch
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David Yeshayahu Silberbusch (Yiddish: דוד ישעיהו זילבּערבּוש, Hebrew: דוד ישעיהו זִילבֶּרבּוּש, 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. he married a second time in Kolomaye, while living as a guest of his in-laws and studying Hebrew and German literature. He published his first work in Peretz Smolenskin's journal Ha-Mabit in 1878.
Silberbusch later lived in Botoșani, Lemberg, and Vienna, settling in Palestine in 1934. He died there three years later.