Occupation Historian, author Genre Holocaust Scholarship | Name Barbara Burstin | |
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Notable works After the Holocaust: The Migration of Polish Jews and Christians to Pittsburgh (May 1989)
Steel City Jews (Oct 24, 2008) Books Steel City Jews: A History of Pittsburgh and Its Jewish Community, 1840-1915 | ||
Barbara Stern Burstin is a professor in the history departments at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. She has published several articles and books relating to the Holocaust and the history of Jews in Pittsburgh.
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Education
The daughter of Mildred and Joseph Stern, Burstin was raised in Farmingdale, New York. Aaron Stern, her grandfather, was one of the first Jews to settle in Farmingdale, and operated Stern's Pickle Factory. Burstin earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. in 1962 and went on to gain her master’s in history education from Columbia University in 1963 prior to acquiring her doctorate in history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986.
Awards
In addition to awards from the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Zionist Organization of America, Burstin is a past recipient of the Sonia & Aaron Levinson Community Relations Award, the Solon J. Buck Award (1987), and the Oskar Halecki Prize from the Polish-American Historical Society (1991) and has been nominated for a regional Emmy Award for the film A Jewish Legacy (2000).