Israel Orenstein

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

He 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.

Bibliography

• Bet Ya'akov; o, dim'at 'ashukim [The House of Israel; or, Tears of the Oppressed] (in Hebrew). 1870.
• Arbe aves nezikin [Damages of Four Fathers] (in Yiddish).
• Dos shlekhte kind [The Evil Child] (in Yiddish).
• Khizoyen Yisroel; oder, khibet hakeyver [Israel's Prophetic Vision; or, Punishment after Death] (in Yiddish).
• A vol yingl khlebin [A Decent Lad, Really] (in Yiddish). Lemberg. 1882.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Ferdorbinim daytsh [Depraved German] (in Yiddish). Lemberg: Jacob Ehrenpreis. 1882.
• Eyts ha-daas; oder, di tsivilizatsyon [The Tree of Knowledge; or, Civilization] (in Yiddish). Jassy: W. Leinwand. 1883.
• Di geheymnisse der Yassyer gemeynde [The Secret of the Jassy Community] (in Yiddish). Jassy: W. Leinwand. 1888.
• Rayones Yisroel; oder, di genarte velt [Jewish Imagination; or The Disappointed World] (in Yiddish). Jassy: W. Leinwand. 1893.
• Gilgl shoykhed; oder, der Mitsraim hund [Transformation of Graft; or, The Dog of Egypt] (in Yiddish). Jassy: W. Leinwand. 1906.

References

 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.