Background
Orenstein was born at Yampol in the guberniya of Podolia (present-day Ukraine).
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.