Career
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.
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 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.