Editing Barbra Streisand (section)

=== Family ===
Streisand was born April 24, 1942, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]], to Diana Ida ({{née}} Rosen; 1908–2002)<ref>{{cite web |year=2002 |title=Diana Kind obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/diana-kind-obituary?id=28136682 |accessdate= |work=Los Angeles Times |via=legacy.com}}</ref> and Emanuel Streisand (1908–1943). Her mother had been a soprano in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary.<ref>{{cite news |last=Gavin |first=James |date=October 5, 2012 |title='Hello, Gorgeous – Becoming Barbra Streisand,' by William J. Mann |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/hello-gorgeous-becoming-barbra-streisand-by-william-j-mann.html |access-date=October 31, 2012 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Her father was a high school teacher at the same school, where they first met.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 17, 2012 |title='Guilt Trip': Streisand on Songs, Films And Family |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=166966172 |access-date=April 29, 2018 |publisher=NPR}}</ref> Streisand's family is [[Jewish]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Walden |first=Celia |date=August 26, 2011 |title=Barbra Streisand interview |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8722516/Barbra-Streisand-interview.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/8722516/Barbra-Streisand-interview.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |access-date=April 29, 2018 |work=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Rayner |first=Jay |date=May 6, 2007 |title=One-night stands don't come cheap |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/may/06/popandrock.jayrayner |access-date=April 29, 2018 |work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Chabin |first=Michele |date=June 21, 2013 |title=Streisand wows Israelis, makes headlines for segregation stand |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/06/21/streisand-israel-concert-jewish-roots/2445991/ |access-date=May 11, 2018 |work=[[USA Today]]}}</ref> Her paternal grandparents emigrated from [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]] (modern-day [[Poland]] and [[Ukraine]]) in the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]], and her maternal grandparents from the [[Russian Empire]], where her grandfather had been a [[hazzan|cantor]].<ref>Andersen 2006, pp. [https://archive.org/details/barbrawaysheisande/page/20 20–22].</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Cords |first=Suzanne |date=April 24, 2017 |title=Barbra Streisand at 75: A girl from Brooklyn makes it big |url=http://www.dw.com/en/barbra-streisand-at-75-a-girl-from-brooklyn-makes-it-big/a-38559835 |access-date=May 11, 2018 |work=[[Deutsche Welle]]}}</ref>

In August 1943, a few months after Streisand's first birthday, her father died at age 34 from complications from an [[epileptic seizure]], possibly the result of a head injury years earlier.<ref name="Nickens">{{cite book |last1=Nickens |first1=Christopher |title=The Films of Barbra Streisand |last2=Swensen |first2=Karen |publisher=Citadel Press |year=2000}}</ref>{{rp|3}} The family fell into near poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper.<ref>{{cite web |title=Barbra Streisand Archives &#124; Childhood, Brooklyn, 1942, Diana Kind |url=http://barbra-archives.com/bjs_library/60s/barbra_beginnings.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131206095459/http://barbra-archives.com/bjs_library/60s/barbra_beginnings.html |archive-date=December 6, 2013 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |website=Barbra-archives.com |publisher=}}</ref> As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an "outcast", explaining, "Everybody else's father came home from work at the end of the day. Mine didn't."<ref name="Nickens" />{{rp|3}} Her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved: "When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food," Streisand says.<ref name="Nickens" />{{rp|3}}

Streisand recalled that her mother had a "great voice" and sang semi-professionally on occasion. In a 2016 interview with [[Rosie O'Donnell]], Streisand recounted that when she was 13, she and her mother recorded some songs on tape during a visit to the [[Catskills]]. That session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her "first moment of inspiration."<ref>{{cite web |date=April 29, 2016 |title=Barbra Streisand Interview with Rosie Rosie O'Donnell |url=http://abc.go.com/shows/the-view/video/pl5554876/VDKA0_accgnenv |accessdate= |website=ABC.go.com}}</ref>

She has an older brother, Sheldon, and a younger half-sister, singer [[Roslyn Kind]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Paskin |first=Barbra |date=May 30, 2013 |title=Streisand's kid sister is happy as one of Kind |url=https://www.thejc.com/culture/music/streisand-s-kid-sister-is-happy-as-one-of-kind-1.45451 |access-date=May 11, 2018 |work=The Jewish Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Brantley |first=Ben |date=August 3, 2016 |title=Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/theater/barbra-streisand-sets-the-record-straight.html |access-date=April 3, 2024 |website=The New York Times |publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Hernandez |first=Greg |date=January 29, 2008 |title=My Chat w/Roslyn Kind: Streisand's sister is on the comeback trail... |url=http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/2008/01/my-chat-wroslyn-kind-streisand.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713040805/http://www.insidesocal.com/outinhollywood/2008/01/my-chat-wroslyn-kind-streisand.html |archivedate=July 13, 2011 |accessdate= |website=insidesocal.com}}</ref> from her mother's remarriage to Louis Kind in 1950.<ref name="las">{{cite news |last=Fink |first=Jerry |date=November 11, 2008 |title=Streisand's sister has 'come to terms' with superstar's shadow |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/nov/11/streisands-sister-has-come-terms-superstars-shadow |newspaper=[[Las Vegas Sun]]}}</ref><ref name="virtual">{{cite news |title=Barbra Streisand |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/theater/barbra-streisand-sets-the-record-straight.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717051439/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/streisand.html |archive-date=July 17, 2011 |access-date=August 17, 2011 |website=Jewishvirtuallibrary.org |publisher=}}</ref>