Moshe Ajzenbud was educated in a Yiddish secular school, a Polish school, and at a technical college. He began to write in a displaced persons' camp in Germany, where he spent four years following the end of WW II. He worked as a correspondent for a Paris Yiddish daily newspaper. In Australia, he worked in the metal trades and as a storeperson while following his interests as a novelist, short-story writer, critic, and editor.