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He had a sister, Carol, and the family lived in a modest apartment near the Atlantic Ocean, in Bensonhurst, a Brooklyn neighborhood.

According to Sagan, they were Reform Jews, the more liberal of Judaism's three main groups.

Both Sagan and his sister agree that their father was not especially religious, but that their mother " definitely believed in God, and was active in the temple ... and served only Kosher meat ".

During the depths of the Depression, his father had to accept a job as a theater usher.