Sidi L'vovna Tal' () or Sidy Thal (born ''(Сореле Биркенталь)'' on 8 September 1912 – died 17 August 1983) was a prominent

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singer and actress in the

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language, born in Czernowitz,

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(now

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). She worked in

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and in the

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. She and her husband, Pinkus Falik (producer of Gery Scott), encouraged and helped the start of the career of the Ukrainian pop singer Sofia Rotaru. Sidi Tal worked at the Chernivtsi Philharmonic until the late 1970s, singing and performing comical, dramatic, and satiric scenes, monologues, and sketches. She also worked with young non-Jewish actors in the Philharmonic, teaching them movement and staging. Some of her students later became superstars of the Soviet popular stage. Throughout her career at the Philharmonic, Sidi Tal and her group toured all over the country and traveled to

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and Romania. Her repertoire included works of such Chernivtsi authors as Eliezer Steinbarg and Motl Saktsier. The music to some of the songs she sang was written by Chernivtsi composers Leibu Levin and Leonid Zatulovskiy.

References

External links

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

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