KHAYIM GOLDENSHTEYN (HAIM GOLDENSTEIN)

KHAYIM GOLDENSHTEYN (HAIM GOLDENSTEIN) (b. May 18, 1912)

            He was born in the village of Sinești, Bessarabia.  He studied in the Kishinev yeshiva, later graduating from a secular high school.  In 1933 he moved to Palestine.  Over the years 1937-1939, he fought in the International Brigade in Spain.  Until 1943 he was in concentration camps in France and Alsace.  In 1944 he returned to Romania, where he was active in the Communist Party.  In book form: Tsufil in eyn vokh, dertseylungen (Too much in one week, stories) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1974), 196 pp.; Tsvey noveles mit a shmits (Two novellas with a spoonful) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1977), 203 pp.; Dos shvaygndike yorhundert, roman (The silent century, a novel) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1979), 268 pp.; Regn-boygns, dertseylungen (Rainbows, stories) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1981), 200 pp.; Bagegenishn, roman (Encounters, a novel) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1985), 235 pp.

Y. Kara

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 138-39.