[3] His father was a scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Chemistry, Polymer Department), his mother worked there as a librarian.

During the years 1965-1967 wrote literary and film criticism for newspapers Al Hamishmar, LaMerhav, Haaretz and Keshet.

Bursztyn lectured and taught at the Danish Film School in Copenhagen, at the Film Studies Department of the New York University and at the Judaic Department of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, United States.

[5] Bursztyn was married to the Habima actress Yael Drouyanoff with whom he had two children.

Today he is married to Ruta Cohen, the administrative manager of a sex therapy clinic.