Shemer, Naomi Sapir

Shemer, Naomi Sapir
▪ 2005

      Israeli composer (b. 1930, Kibbutz Kinneret, Palestine—d. June 26, 2004, Tel Aviv, Israel), wrote inspiring Hebrew-language songs that embodied the land, the people, and the culture of Israel; “Yerushalayim shel zahav” (“Jerusalem of Gold”), which she composed for the Israeli Song Festival in early 1967, became almost an unofficial national anthem after the Six-Day War later that year. Shemer also devised popular children's songs, theatrical musicals, and Hebrew translations of foreign poetry, notably an adaptation of Walt Whitman's “O Captain! My Captain!” that she composed in 1995 in honour of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin after he was assassinated. Shemer was awarded the Israel Prize in 1983. After her funeral, which was attended by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other government ministers, it was announced that an Israeli stamp would be issued in her honour.

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