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] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rosenthal, Herman; Rosenthal, Max (1905).