Barbara Burstin

Barbara Burstin, PhD, is an author, teacher, and community leader. She has written several books, including Steel City Jews and the soon-to-be-published Steel City Jews in Prosperity, Depression and War. She produced A Jewish Legacy: Pittsburgh and has taught courses on the Pittsburgh Jewish show more experience and the Holocaust for many years at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. A longtime student of Pittsburgh Jewish history, she has also served on the Pittsburgh Human Relations Commission and chaired several organizations, including the Holocaust Commission, the Hillel-Jewish University Center, and the United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. The images for this book are primarily from the Rauh Jewish Archives of the Heinz History Center and the University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center. show less