Israel Orenstein
Born(1831-05-19)19 May 1831
Yampol, Podolian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1905(1905-00-00) (aged 73–74)
LanguageYiddish, Hebrew

Israel Orenstein (Yiddish: ישראל ארענשטיין; 19 May 1831 – 1905)[1] was a Ukrainian-born Jewish novelist.

He was born in the Polodian town of Yampol, Podolian Governorate.[2] 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.[2] 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.[1]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Rosenthal, Max (1905). "Orenstein, Israel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 432.

  1. ^ a b Fogel, Joshua (7 September 2014). "Yisroel Ornshteyn". Yiddish Leksikon. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  2. ^ a b Sokolow, Naḥum (1889). Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom [Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers] (in Hebrew). Warsaw. p. 6.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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