[1] His father was a wealthy merchant,[2] and his mother a descendant of the Chacham Tzvi.

At an early age he devoted himself to the study of Hebrew, and in 1870 entered the printing-house of Michael Wolf at Lemberg as proofreader.

When the Baron de Hirsch schools were founded in Galicia, Schulbaum was called (1889) as teacher of Hebrew to Kolomea; in 1897 he was transferred to the Baron de Hirsch school at Mikulince.

Schulbaum's library burned in the chaos of World War I, and his house was requisitioned by the Russian military.

The last four volumes of this book—namely, the Aramaic, modern Hebrew, and German-Hebrew glossaries, and the glossary of proper names—were compiled independently by Schulbaum; likewise the following parts which appeared in a second edition: Hebrew-German dictionary (Lemberg, 1898), and German-Hebrew dictionary (Lemberg, 1904).