Zelman Kleinstein

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Zelman Kleinstein was an Israeli chess master.


He played for Palestine team in the 8th Chess Olympiad at fourth board (won 2, lost 6 and drew 2) at Buenos Aires 1939. In September 1939, when WW II was broke out, Kleinstein, along with many other participants of that Olympiad (Najdorf, Stahlberg, Frydman, Feigins, Czerniak, Rauch, Winz, Eliskases, Michel, Engels, Becker, Reinhardt, Pelikan, Skalička, Luckis, Raud, Gromer, Sulik, Seitz, de Ronde, Sonja Graf, etc.) had decided to stay permanently in Argentina.


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