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 (age 69) 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

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

• List of select Jewish ice hockey players

References

External links

• Jørn Goldstein at Olympedia

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