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Yaacov (Yana) Liberman (born March 10, 1923) is a Chinese-Israeli Zionist politician and author. [1] In 1948 he emigrated to Israel.
Liberman was born in Harbin, China into a wealthy Russian Jewish family, to Semyon Liberman from Sevastopol and Gisia Zuboreva from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur he got 3 brothers. [2] He was a Zionist leader in Shanghai [3] and wrote two books: My China: Jewish Life in the Orient: 1900–1950 and Tears of Zion: Divided We Stand.
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