[2] He studied Greek and Latin in the local gymnasium, and was active in the Hashomer Hatzair movement.
[3] Silberschlag immigrated with his family to New York City in 1920,[4] publishing his first poem in the weekly Hadar in 1925.
[3] That same year he returned to Europe, where he completed a doctorate at the University of Vienna with a dissertation on Anglo-Russian relations during the reign of Catherine the Great.
[5] He died at the age of 85 at St. David's Hospital in Austin,[6] and was buried at the Mount of Olives Cemetery in Jerusalem.
[4] He also edited, along with Aaron Zeitlin, several volumes of the Hebrew quarterly Ha-Tekufah [Wikidata].