Israel Orenstein
Israel Orenstein (; 19 May 1831 – 1905) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish novelist. Biography. Orenstein was born in the Polodian town of Yampol, Podolian Governorate. At the age of twenty-one he went to Romania, where he published (1870) his first novel in Hebrew, "Bet Ya'akov; o, dim'at 'ashukim". He subsequently published the Yiddish novels "Arbe aves nezikin", "Dos shlekhte kind", "Eyts ha-daas", "Khizoyen yisroel; oder, khibet hakeyver", "Di geheymnisse der Yassyer gemeynde", and "Di genarte velt".