as a perfumer; his mother was Friedl (Rubin).

When he was seven, he fled with his family from the Nazis, traveling first to Italy and Nice. They settled in Shanghai in 1940, a city with numerous European Jewish refugees, where they lived until 1949.

In 1949, the family relocated to Israel, where Abish served in the army and developed an interest in writing. He settled in the United States in 1957

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