Israel Orenstein
Israel Orenstein 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 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.