Name Israel Orenstein | Role Novelist | |
Israel Orenstein (born 1831) was a Russian Jewish novelist.
Life
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.
References
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