Goldie Steinberg (née Gurfinkel; October 30, 1900 – August 16, 2015) was a Jewish Moldovan-born American supercentenarian who at the age of 7009362262240000000♠114 years, 290 days, was the world's sixth oldest living person, as well as the second oldest person living in the United States behind Susannah Mushatt Jones. She was the oldest person ever born in the Russian Empire and the oldest verified Jew.
Steinberg was born in Kishinev in the Russian Empire (now Chișinău, Moldova), one of eight children born to Chazkel and Dvoira Gurfinkel. She was a survivor of the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. In 1923, she and her two sisters emigrated to the United States. She married Philip Steinberg in 1932. Her husband, who died in 1967, worked as a jeweler on Fulton Street. She herself worked as a seamstress until she retired at the age of 80. She lived independently until she was 104.
She was survived by her two children, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She lived in the Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach, New York at the time of her death. Steinberg died on August 16, 2015.
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Female supercentenarian
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Female
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30 October 1900(Chișinău)
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16 August 2015(Long Beach)
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