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

Biography

Goldstein was born in Oslo, Norway, and is Jewish. His mother's family, surname Schapow, immigrated to Norway from Lithuania in the early 1900s. 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. The family eventually moved to Ila, Trondheim.

Jørn Goldstein

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

Jørn Goldstein

In 1983, the Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made the movie Hockeyfeber (Hockey Fever), in which Goldstein has a central role.

Jørn Goldstein

See also

List of select Jewish ice hockey players

References

External links

1953 births

Living people

Ice hockey players at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Jewish ice hockey players

Norwegian ice hockey goaltenders

Norwegian Jews

Olympic ice hockey players for Norway

Ice hockey people from Oslo