Early Life
Burns was born in Stanislawow, Galicia, a province of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, in 1904 to Sarah Juran and Nathan Burnseig, who worked as a house painter. He showed aptitude early in his childhood, when he translated the Talmud into Polish and Russian by age 6 and debated socialism at age 9. In 1914, he immigrated to Bayonne, New Jersey with his Austro-Hungarian parents.
At age 17, Burns enrolled in Columbia University on a scholarship offered by the university secretary. He worked in jobs ranging from postal clerk to shoe salesman during his time at Columbia as a student before earning his B.A. and M.A. in 1925, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.
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