Early Life
Born Merrill Beth Nisker in Toronto, Ontario, she attended a private Jewish school where her classes were taught half in English and half in Hebrew. Nisker was a class clown, who "wasn't particularly smart. I was interested in creative performance stuff, but that turned out to be difficult for me because it was all so structured," she told Kitty Empire of The Observer.
Her family was culturally Jewish, though they were not religious. Her grandparents immigrated to Canada from Poland; her paternal grandparents were from Galicia. In an interview in URB magazine, alongside Princess Superstar, she recounted how growing up she experienced antisemitism from local schoolchildren; on her walks home from school, students from a nearby Catholic school would throw stones at her and call her a "dirty Jew".
Before she became Peaches, Nisker was a music and drama teacher at Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto.
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