She taught creative writing for high school students, and Ancient Near East literature at the Tel Aviv University and the Levinsky College of Education[3] In 1964 she married the ex-Lehi member Matityahu Shmuelevitch.
Shifra's greatest work, done in collaboration with Prof. Jacob Klein of the Bar-Ilan University, is the anthology of Ancient Near East poetry, on which they spent 15 years in its translation to Hebrew from Sumerian and Akkadian.
In "The Epic of Gilgamesh", she chose to present the stories of the myths via a fictitious Assyrian narrator, Kerdi-Nergal, who recites tales to King Ashurbanipal.
The common thread connecting Shifra's translations and many of her other works is the geographical location affinity linking the Land of Israel to the Middle East.
Poetry books published in Hebrew: A Womanʹs Song, Machbarot Lesifrut, 1962 [Shir Isha] The Next Step, Machbarot Lesifrut, 1968 [Ha-Tzaʹad Ha-Ba] Desert Poems, Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1972 [Shirei Midbar] Drimias Memorial Candles (Poems 1973–1985), Am Oved, 1987 [Hatzavim Nerot Neshama] A Woman Who Practices How to Live, Zmora-Bitan, 2001 [Isha She-Mitʹamenet Be-Lichyot: Shirim 1986–1999] Whispering Silk, Zmora-Bitan, 2007 [Meshi Lachashta Li] Prose Books published in Hebrew: The Sand Street (stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad/ Yedioth Ahronoth, 1994 [Rehov Ha-Hol] Woman Is Just an Arena (stories), Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2012 [Isha Hi Rak Zira] The Epic of Gilgamesh (young adults), Am Oved, 2000 [Alilot Gilgamesh] The Tales of Anzu the Great Eagle (children), Am Oved, 2009 [Alilot Anzu Ha-Nesher Ha-Gadol] The Descend of Ishtar to the Underworld (young adults), Am Oved, 2012 [Alilot Inanna-Ishtar Ba-Shʹol] Non-fiction books published in Hebrew: Jewish Literature in the Hebrew Language – by Yonatan Ratosh; introduction, notes and references by Shin Shifra, Hadar 1982 The Beginning Days – by Yonatan Ratosh; edited by Shin Shifra, Hadar 1982 Shifra published an article titled "No Intercourse, and With No Delight – on the Problem of the Alien Lover in Israeli Literature" in the May 1972 edition of the periodical "Aleph", under the pseudonym "Yosef Dotan".
[12] Shin Shifra, "In the Meadow in the Soft Grass", in "Whence did I Inherit my Poetry – writers and poets on their sources of inspiration", edited by Ruth Kartun-Blum, Yedioth Ahronoth Books, 2002, pp.