Yaacov (Yana) Liberman (; born March 10, 1923) is a Chinese-Israeli

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politician and author. In 1948 he emigrated to Israel. Liberman was born in

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

, China into a wealthy Russian Jewish family, to Semyon Liberman from

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and Gisia Zuboreva from

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he got 3 brothers. He was a Zionist leader in

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

and wrote two books: ''My China: Jewish Life in the Orient: 1900–1950'' and ''Tears of Zion: Divided We Stand''.

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1923 births Living people Chinese Jews Chinese people of Russian-Jewish descent Israeli Jews Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent Chinese Zionists Chinese emigrants to Israel Writers from Harbin {{Israel-bio-stub