December 10, 2019
The Irrepressible Sophie Masloff
Speaker: Barbara Burstin, SHHS Member and on the faculty of CMU and Pitt
About the Speaker:
SHHS Member Dr. Burstin teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, including Osher classes. Her courses deal with the American Jewish experience, the U.S. and the Holocaust, and now a new course on the history of Pittsburgh. In addition to Jewish Pittsburgh, Dr. Burstin is the author of Steel City Jews, a history of Pittsburgh and its Jewish community from 1840 to 1915, and its sequel, Steel City Jews in Prosperity, Depression and War, published in 2015, looks at the community in the 1920s, ‘30s, and ‘40s. She has produced a film, A Jewish Legacy: Pittsburgh. Barbara Burstin has just completed a book on Sophie Masloff, The Mayor from Squirrel Hill, which will be the subject of this talk.
Squirrel Hill Historical Society 