Jørn Goldstein

Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.[1]

Jørn Irving Goldstein
Born (1953-03-27) March 27, 1953
Oslo, Norway
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb)
Position Goalie
GET-ligaen team Manglerud Star Ishockey
National team  Norway
Playing career –present

Biography

Goldstein was born in Oslo, Norway, and is Jewish.[1][2][3][4] His mother's family, surname Schapow, immigrated to Norway from Lithuania in the early 1900s.[3][4] His father, Otto Goldstein, arrived in 1947 from Germany, a Holocaust survivor who survived and was liberated in World War II from Nazi Germany's concentration camps.[4][3] The family eventually moved to Ila, Trondheim.[4]

As an 18-year old Goldstein joined Manglerud Star Ishockey, and became the team's goalkeeper.[4] Goldstein played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in 1984.[5][6] He was awarded Gullpucken as best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1977.[7][4]

In 1983, Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made a movie entitled Hockey Fever, in which Goldstein has a central role.[4][8]

See also

References
  1. "Jorn Goldstein Olympic Stats" | Hockey-Reference.com
  2. Jewish Post 18 May 1988
  3. The 1984 Olympic Games: Sarajevo/Los Angeles - Dick Schaap
  4. Månedens gjenstand
  5. "Jørn Goldstein". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  6. Jörn GOLDSTEIN - Olympic Ice Hockey | Norway
  7. Schanke, Tom A (2007). Norsk Idrettsleksikon (in Norwegian). Aller Forlag. p. 346. ISBN 978-82-8156-044-4.
  8. "Jørn Goldstein" - IMDb


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