Israel Orenstein

Orenstein was born at Yampol in the guberniya of Podolia (present-day Ukraine). At the age of twenty-one he went to Rumania, where he published (1870) his first novel in Hebrew: Bet Ya'aḳob o Dim'at 'Ashuḳim. He subsequently published the following novels in Yiddish: Arba'ah Abot Neziḳin; Das Schlechte Kind; 'Eẓ ha-Da'at; Ḥezyon Yisrael, or Ḥibbut ha-Keber; Die Geheimnisse der Jassyer Gemeinde; and Die Genarrte Welt.

N. Sokolow, Sefer Zikkaron, p. 6, Warsaw, 1888.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Orenstein, Israel". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. That entry was by Herman Rosenthal and Max Rosenthal.