Sidi L'vovna Tal' or Sidy Thal (born (Сореле Биркенталь) on September 8, 1912 — August 17, 1983) was a prominent, popular Jewish singer and actress in the Yiddish language, born in Czernowitz

Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. The city is situated on the upper course of the River Prut, a tributary of the Danube, in the northern part of the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently divided between Romania and Ukraine...

, Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

 (now Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. The city is situated on the upper course of the River Prut, a tributary of the Danube, in the northern part of the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently divided between Romania and Ukraine...

, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

). She worked in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 and in the USSR.

Tal and her husband Pinkus Falik (producer of Gery Scott

Gery Scott

Gery Scott was a jazz and cabaret entertainer and teacher, whose performing career spanned 26 countries and over 60 years...

) encouraged the start of the career of the Ukrainian pop singer Sofia Rotaru

Sofia Rotaru

Sofia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru known as Sofia Rotaru is a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer of Romanian/Moldavian heritage....

.

External links

• Asya Vaisman, Sidi Tal and Yiddish Culture in Czernowitz in the 1940s-1980s
• Moisei Goikhberg, Recollecting Sidi Tal