Barbara Stern Burstin is an adjunct professor in the history departments at the

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and

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. She has published several books and articles relating to the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

and the history of Jews in

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Early life and education

The daughter of Mildred and Joseph Stern, Burstin was raised in

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. 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

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, in

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, N.Y. in 1962 and went on to gain her master's in history education from

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in 1963 prior to acquiring her doctorate in history from the

in 1986.History Department
Barbara Burstin
, Carnegie Mellon University, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Accessed 16 November 2015.

Awards

In addition to awards from the Pittsburgh Chapter of the

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, Burstin is a past recipient of the Sonia & Aaron Levinson Community Relations Award, the Solon J. Buck Award (1987), and the

Oskar Halecki Oskar Halecki (26 May 1891, Vienna, Cisleithania, Austria-Hungary – 17 September 1973, White Plains, New York, United States of America) was a Polish historian, social and Catholic activist. Life and career Halecki, whose first name is sometim ...

Prize from the Polish-American Historical Society (1991) and has been nominated for a regional

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for the film ''A Jewish Legacy'' (2000).Department of History
Barbara Burstin
. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA.

Selected works

*''After the Holocaust: The Migration of Polish Jews and Christians to Pittsburgh,'' University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989, 978-0822936039 *''Steel City Jews,'' 978-09820633J09 *''The Warsaw Ghetto: A Shattered Window on the Holocaust,'' in History Teacher, v13 n4 p531–41 Aug 1980. *''A Jewish Legacy'' (2000) (film) *''Steel City Jews'': A history of the Pittsburgh Jewish community 1840-1915 (2015) *''Steel City Jews in Prosperity, Depression, and War'': A history of the Pittsburgh Jewish community 1915-1950 (2015) *''Jewish Pittsburgh "Images of America Series"'' (2015)

References and citations

External links

*Congregation Beth Tikvah

, Farmingdale, New York. June 8, 2014 7:15 AM version, Accessed 16 November 2015. *Department of History
Barbara Burstin
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA. *Monty Noam Penkower
Reviewed Work: After the Holocaust: The Migration of Polish Jews and Christians to Pittsburgh. by Barbara Stern Burstin
The Journal of American History Vol. 77, No. 1 (Jun., 1990), pp. 350–351. *Website, https://www.sophiemasloff.co

Living people 21st-century American historians Historians of the Holocaust University of Pittsburgh faculty Carnegie Mellon University faculty American women historians People from Farmingdale, New York Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women Historians from New York (state) {{Holocaust-stub