“... that her films’ limitations were the result of her writing style. She adapted two novels by Isaac BashevisSinger, The Manor and The Estate, both written in Yiddish, which follow several interconnected families in Poland at the end of the 19th century. She found in them the roots of ‘all the spiritual and ...”

“... was born Barbara Joan Streisand in 1942 in Brooklyn. Her mother, Diana Rosen, was a gifted singer; Streisand never shook the feeling that her mother was jealous of her. When she was fifteen months old her father, Emanuel, died of a seizure at a summer camp in the Catskills, and Streisand, her mother and nine-year-old brother moved first to her maternal ...”