| Jørn Irving Goldstein | |
| Birth Date: | March 27, 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Oslo, Norway |
| Height Ft: | 5 |
| Height In: | 10 |
| Weight Lb: | 170 |
| Position: | Goalie |
| League: | GET-ligaen |
| Team: | Manglerud Star Ishockey |
| Ntl Team: | Norway |
Jørn Irving Goldstein (born March 27, 1953) is a Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.[1]
Goldstein was born in Oslo, Norway, and is Jewish.[2] [3] [4] 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.
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.[5] [6] He was awarded Gullpucken as best Norwegian ice hockey player in 1977.[7]
In 1983, the Norwegian director Oddvar Bull Tuhus made the movie Hockeyfeber (Hockey Fever), in which Goldstein has a central role.[8]