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Naomi Shemer
Naomi Shemer
Tomorrow A Chariot of Fire My Soldier is Back Four Brothers The Long Hike Look For Me We Are Starving! An Umbrella For Two My Dream House Anniversary Song My Flute Twelve Months A Short Walk My Fathers Song
Naomi Shemer Birth name Born Origin Died Genre(s) Occupation(s) Instrument(s) Naomi Sapir July 13, 1930(1930-07-13) Kvutzat Kinneret, Israel June 26, 2004 (aged 73) World Singer, songwriter Vocals
On The Jordan Lights Out Fields at Sunset Soldiers En Route The Builders’ Love Men At Work! In Such a Night The Clown Ophelia The Spy-Girl A Serenade Flowers, Herbs, Etc. The Market Song Night on the Park
The White Town Black Coffee Green Meadows A Song For Gideon Yesternight The Two of Us A Lament Just For You Night on the Shore Answers A City in Grey Jerusalem of Gold On Silver Wings Lullaby for Colors
Naomi Shemer (Hebrew: רמש ימענ, born 13 July 1930, died 26 June 2004) was one of Israel’s most important and prolific songwriters. During her lifetime, she was hailed as the "First Lady of Israeli Song." Born Naomi Sapir, Shemer did her own songwriting and composing, as well as setting famous poems to music, such as those of the Israeli poet, Rachel, and adapting wellknown songs into Hebrew, such as the Beatles songs "Hey Jude" and "Let it Be" ("Lu Yehi"). Shemer was born and raised in Kvutzat Kinneret, a kibbutz that her parents had helped found, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In the 1950s she served in the Israeli
Defense Force’s Nahal entertainment troupe and studied music at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem. She married Mordechai Horowitz and had two children, Lali and Ariel.[1] In 1983, Shemer received the Israel Prize for her contribution to Israeli culture. Several of Shemer’s songs have the quality of anthems, striking deep national and emotional chords in the hearts of Israelis. Her most famous song is "Yerushalayim shel zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"). She wrote it in 1967, before the Six Day War, and added another stanza after Israel captured East Jerusalem and regained access to the Western Wall. In 1968, Uri Avnery, then a member of the Israeli parliament, proposed that "Jerusalem of Gold" become the Israeli anthem. The proposal was rejected, but the nomination itself says something about the power of Shemer’s songs. Shemer continued to write and perform until her death. She died of cancer in 2004 at the age of 73.
Bibliography
• All My Songs (Almost), copyright 1967, published by Yediot Achronot
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Land of Lahadam Land of Lahadam Nachal in Sinai Maoz Tsur The Sacrifice of Isaac Giora All We Pray For A Song is Born Things we Have Bethlehem Why Did Michael Laugh Ruchama Yesh Li Chag It’s Late Shalom Kitah Aleph To Sing Like a Jordan Funny Faces Beautiful People Sixteen Mr. Narcissus The Witches A Special Lullaby Shem, Cham, & Yefet The Shark Paranoid Two Street-Photographers For Children Rosh-Hashana Shlomit Aleph-Beit
Naomi Shemer
When Adar Comes Let’s Say I Have a Friend On the Move Summer Holiday Tall Stories How to Break a Chamsim
• Book Four (Sefer Arbah), copyright 1995, published by Shva Publishers
References
[1] "Naomi Shemer 1930-2004". Haaretz. Haaretz.com. http://www.haaretz.com/ hasen/pages/ ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=444039&contrassID=2&subCon Retrieved on 2007-08-27.
External links
• Jewish Agency Biography • Tikkun Toronto • Basque Folk tune, inspiration for Jerusalem of Gold
Israeli songwriter Naomi Shemer’s grave on the shores of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret)]. The stones were left by visitors, in keeping with an ancient Jewish custom • The Second Book, copyright 1975, published by Lulav • Number Three (Sefer Gimel), copyright 1982, published by Lulav
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Songs AL Kol ELeh Good People Shirat Ha’Asavim Cheveley Mashiach Tapuach B’Dvash New Babylon Yif’at Tammuz Spring Parade The Eighth Day Summer Noa Zamar Noded Landmarks My Town in the Snow Lots of Love The party is Over Ein Davar El Borot Ha’Mayim Poems Omrim Yeshna Eretz Hoi Artai Moladiti Come & Sing Kinneret Begani Zemer Metai Rachel Ki Sa’art Alai The Third Mother Imported Wine Oifen Veg Stait a Bhoim Si Tous les Oiseaux Le Testament La Non-Demande en Mariage Il n’y a pas d’Amour Heureux Un Amour de Vingt Ans Les Souliers O Imitoos Sur le Chemin du Retour Barbara Children Everywhere Children Everywhere Grapefruit Autumn Our Benjamin The Piano
Naomi Shemer
Columns from Davar Shalom, Ida Nudel Pardes-Hanna It’s Raining Yehuda Vintage Days
Your Lily-White Dedication Feet A Lament My Sudden Death Let’s go to the Field
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Naomi Shemer
Lyrics for Mattai Caspi’s Music
Chanuka Shulamit Tu Bishvat Pesach Simchati Farewll
You’re the Old Flame Best Good Morning Libavtini Black Princess Flower
Never a Dull Moment Upside Down
One Little Kid
My Mother’s Portrait Noga The Bread of Love After the Harvest Summer White The Flour Jar Pardes-Chana II I’m a Guitar To Light a Candle Your Sons From Afar Hal’ah Safed On the Boardwalk Shana Tova It’s All Open Cafe Tiferet My Young Disaster Dancing
Prelude Sister Roof Gai Strawberry Time September First
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