Jørn Irving Goldstein | |||
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Born |
Oslo, Norway | March 27, 1953||
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 |
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Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player. [1]
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, the Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made the movie Hockeyfeber (Hockey Fever), in which Goldstein has a central role. [4] [8]
Jørn Irving Goldstein | |||
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Born |
Oslo, Norway | March 27, 1953||
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 |
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Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player. [1]
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, the Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made the movie Hockeyfeber (Hockey Fever), in which Goldstein has a central role. [4] [8]