Slavko Goldstein

Slavko Goldstein (January 2017)

Slavko Goldstein ( Cyrillic  Славко Голдштајн ; born August 22, 1928 in Sarajevo , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † September 13, 2017 in Zagreb ) was a Yugoslav or Croatian screenwriter , writer and politician .

Life

Goldstein's family comes from Tuzla . Slavko was born in Sarajevo as the first son of the Jewish bookseller Ivo Goldstein and his wife Lea, née Brill . The family moved to Karlovac , where father Ivo took over his uncle's bookstore , a meeting place for left-wing intellectuals . After the attack on Yugoslavia in April 1941 and the takeover of power by the Ustaše , his father Ivo was arrested for belonging to left-wing political circles. In August 1941 he was murdered in the Jadovno concentration camp .

The mother Lea was arrested a little later and spent the time up to her escape, from July to August, in prison. Slavko and his brother Daniel Ivin, born Danko Goldstein (* 1932), fled Karlovac. Slavko stayed with the Đerek family in the Banski Kovačevac settlement , while his brother was taken in by their grandfather in Tuzla. In January 1942 they were all in Kraljevica . Since the mother was a member of the Hashomer Hatzair , she had contacts with the Yugoslav partisans , which they joined until the end of the Second World War . The mother did medical services , the brother worked as a messenger in the Agitprop Central Committee, while Slavko, then 14, became a member of a partisan combat unit. At the age of less than 17 he was awarded the rank of lieutenant , making him one of the youngest officers in the partisan army .

After the Second World War, he graduated from secondary school in 1947 and the family moved to Zagreb . In 1949 he joined the Israeli Defense Forces in the Israeli War of Independence and then lived in a kibbutz for several years . In 1951 he returned to Yugoslavia and studied philosophy and literature at the University of Zagreb , but without completing his studies.

He was chairman of the Zagreb Jewish community from 1986 to 1990 and chairman of the Jasenovac memorial from 2001 to 2005. After the founding of the Jewish religious community Beth Israel in 2007 in the Jewish community of Zagreb due to internal conflicts , he became its president.

In 1989 he was one of the founders of the Croatian Social-Liberal Party and its first chairman until 1990. In the 1990s he was an open critic of the policies of the first Croatian President Franjo Tuđmans and one of the signatories of a motion for his resignation.

He is the father of the Croatian historian Ivo Goldstein .

Goldstein died in Zagreb in September 2017 at the age of 89.

Create

Goldstein worked as a journalist and later as an editor for several Croatian newspapers, including Vjesnik . He was responsible for Croatian radio , was the editor of more than 150 books and has worked on around 400 titles. He published several books on Croatian history .

He has written the screenplays for several films and 1964 in the documentation Dreznica in 1965 and the short film project directed out.
In 2009 he was interviewed as an expert in the three-part German documentary Hitler's allies .

Books (selection)

• Slavko Goldstein: Prijedlog 85: glas iz privrede . Scientia Yugoslavica, 1985.
• Ivo Goldstein, Slavko Goldstein: Holokaust u Zagrebu . Novi liber, 2001.
• Slavko Goldstein, Ivo Goldstein: Jasenovac i Bleiburg nisu isto . Novi Liber, 2011, ISBN 978-953-325-009-0 .
• Slavko Goldstein: 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning . New York Review of Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-59017-700-6 .
  • German edition: 1941 - The year that does not go by: The seeds of hatred in the Balkans , Frankfurt am Main: S. FISCHER 2018, ISBN 978-3-10-002537-1 .

Scripts

• Signali nad gradom ; 1960.
• Nevesinjska puska ; Co-author: M. Stamenkovic; 1963
• Prometej s otoka Viševice ; Co-author: V. Mimica; 1964.
• Četvrti suputnik ; Co-author: B. Bauer; 1967.
• Akcija Stadium ; Co-author: D. Vukotić; 1977.

Web links

• Slavko Goldstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Umro istaknuti hrvatski intelektualac Slavko Goldstein . In: Hrvatska radiotelevizija . ( hrt.hr [accessed September 13, 2017]).
2. ^ ^{A b} Croatian Writers Society - Slavko Goldstein. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 25, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} vecernji - VL Biografije - Slavko Goldstein. Retrieved June 25, 2015 . 
4. ^ ^{A b} Adam Kirsch: Betrayal in the Balkans: Adam Kirsch Book review of Slavko Goldsteins 1941. In: Tablet Magazine. November 25, 2013, accessed September 14, 2017 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} New York Review Books - 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning - About the authors. Retrieved June 25, 2015 . 
6. ↑ A review of the German edition by Michael Frank appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in July 2018: Völkischer Furor in Croatia