America and the Holocaust: Graphic Booklet

 A study of America's response to Hitler and the Holocaust. By targeting this publication to junior high and high school students, Dr. Burstin hopes to encourage their fascination with history, spark their commitment to combat bigotry, and promote democracy today. 

 It is fairly certain that Sophie Masloff never studied the writings of our founding fathers. She was a poor girl, not able to go to college, not steeped in the niceties of the American tradition, but despite this, Sophie in a very real sense, lived up to our founding fathers' standards. It was said by those who knew her that Sophie had three great loves - her family, the Democratic Party and the city of Pittsburgh. 

 This book portrays the development of the Pittsburgh Jewish community through pictures and individuals who have made impressive contributions to the city. The Steel City Jews - In Prosperity, Depression and War 1915-1950 book is the sequel to Steel City Jews which explored the Pittsburgh and its Jewish community from 1840-1915. It focuses on the 1920s, 30s and the 40s. The decade of the 20s was one of prosperity and progress, but it also was a decade of darkening shadows and growing concerns. 

This is a bundled collection of Sophie Masloff - The Incomparable Mayor Masloff and the Steel City Jews - In Prosperity, Depression and War 1915-1950 

  Pittsburgh was called by various observers “Hell with the Lid On” and “Hell with the Lid Off.” It was a city rich in contrasts and rich in its history. And amid the swirling currents that made up the vibrant flow of the city’s life, navigated the Jews, an immigrant group that began settling in the region in the 1840's. They might not have rivaled the likes of Carnegie and Frick, but they had their own movers and shakers. Come meet A. Leo Weil who battled municipal corruption and graft, the Kaufmann brothers of department store fame, Barney Dreyfuss who launched the Pittsburgh Pirates, Bertha Rauh, community service volunteer extraordinaire, and a whole host of others who made their contribution to the development of the town. 

  By the mid-19th century, Jews from German lands began settling in Pittsburgh, later to be followed by Jews from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires and Romania. They founded businesses and organizations such as Giant Eagle, Kaufmann’s Department Store, Montefiore Hospital, the Pittsburgh Playhouse, the Civic Light Opera, and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Sophie Masloff became the first woman and the first Jew to serve as mayor, and civic reformer and lawyer A. Leo Weil, philanthropist Leon Falk Jr., and social justice crusader Florence Reizenstein all had schools named after them.