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Her father was a high school teacher at the same school, where they first met. Streisand's family was Jewish, as her paternal grandparents emigrated from Galicia Poland—Ukraine and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire.
In , a few months after Streisand's first birthday, her father died suddenly at the age of 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure. The family almost fell into poverty as a result. She also has an older brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister, the singer Roslyn Kind, from her mother's remarriage to Louis Kind in Streisand's father was a high school English teacher who died from complications of an epileptic seizure when Streisand was only 15 months old.
Her mother, Diana, raised Streisand and her older brother, Sheldon, by working as a secretary in the New York City public school system, but the family barely survived on the brink of poverty. They moved in with Streisand's grandparents to help make ends meet. Her mother then remarried in , to used-car salesman Louis Kind, while Streisand was away at camp.
Her half-sister, Rosalind, was born in Streisand has described her childhood as painful. She was shy as a child and often felt rejected by other children because her looks were unusual. Additionally, she saw her stepfather as emotionally abusive.
She also found no support from her mother, who thought her too unattractive to pursue her dreams of show business. As a child, Streisand attended Bais Yakov School, where she sang in the school choir. Even before Streisand graduated from high school, she was traveling to New York City to study acting.
Streisand negotiated a deal with the couple; she would babysit for their children in exchange for a scholarship to Alan's acting school. It was one of two she simultaneously attended. She graduated from Erasmus High in at the age of She was fourth in her class.
Streisand moved to Manhattan in months after graduating from high school. There, she shared several apartments with friends, including one with actor Elliot Gould, who she wed in They were married for eight years. Together the couple had one child, Jason. While working office jobs and attending acting lessons, Streisand was encouraged to enter a talent night at a local club. She had never taken a singing lesson before. The evening was a resounding success, and she soon embarked on a career as a cabaret singer, dropping the middle "a" from her name so that it would stand out.
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