"The outstanding figures of the Jewish culture Itsik Manger, Eliazar Shteybarg,
Sholom Aleyhem, Natan Altman, Sidi Tal lived and worked in the city"
(http://www.jfu.kiev.ua/chernovtsy.htm)

            Alexander Zlotnik ... graduated from Kyiv state conservatory name by P. I. Tchaykovski majoring in bayan-playing and conducting. Graduated from Odessa state conservatory majoring in composition and music theory. Wrote music for more than forty movies, the opera-duma, many musicals, symphonic, chamber and instrumental compositions, choruses etc. Wrote music for more than a thousand songs. Laureate of numbers of  international and native competitions, "The Song of The Year" festival. Laureate of international prize name by Sidi Tal. Holder of International Order of Mykola Chudotvorets.

from:     www.zlotnik.kiev.ua/english/info.htm

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The Jews of Chernivtsi
by Sue Ann

            But over the next few days, traces emerge. Here and there, buildings are adorned with sculptured commemorative
plaques. Most celebrate Soviet and Ukrainian heroes but some recall the lives of Jewish people who lived and worked here:
writers Moshe Altmann and Eliezer Steinbarg; Joseph Schmidt the famous cantor who sang in the Temple; Sidi Tal who
worked in the Philharmonia; Paul Celan the poet. The Jewish plaques, I notice, were all erected within the last ten years. It is
as if, in the stirring of history where Soviet and revolutionary heroes sink gently to the bottom of the pool and new bronze
Ukrainian monuments and street names arise, Jewish culture is also surfacing.

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/JQHarding.html
sueannjane@yahoo.com

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Yiddish Festival
May 27-31 1999
      CONCERT BY DAVID STEPANOVSKY
      David Stepanovsky is from Czernowitz and was a student of Sidi Tal, one of the last great actresses of the Yiddish
      theater in the USSR. Mr. Stepanovsky was very popular in Ukraine (concerts, TV shows, state honors - mostly
      for the Ukrainian songs, but he always had Yiddish songs in his programs, even when it was strongly frowned
      upon), and has recently recorded 4 songs for the new CD "Hidden Histories: Songs from the Kovno Ghetto."
http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/ML99/