Yaacov Liberman

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| name = Yaacov Liberman

| native_name = יעקב ליברמן

| native_name_lang = he

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1923|3|10}}

| birth_place = Harbin

| occupation = Zionist politician and author

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Yaacov (Yana) Liberman ({{Langx|he|יעקב ליברמן}}; born March 10, 1923) is a Chinese-Israeli Zionist politician and author.{{cite book |title=Who's Who, Israel |date=1963 |publisher=P. Mamut |page=409 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKMJAQAAIAAJ&q=Yaacov+Liberman++1923 |access-date=16 March 2021}} 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. He was a Zionist leader in Shanghai and wrote two books: My China: Jewish Life in the Orient: 1900–1950 and Tears of Zion: Divided We Stand.

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{{cite web|url=http://www.oakton.edu/user/~friend/book_parkr.html|title=China Judaic Studies Association. Book Reviews|author=Parker, Eleanor|date=July 1998}}

{{cite web|url=http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/harbin/My_China_Chapter_1.htm|title=JewishGen ShtetLinks. Harbin Memories from Yaacov Liberman|work=Jewishgen.org}}

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Category:1923 births

Category:Living people

Category:Chinese Jews

Category:Chinese people of Russian-Jewish descent

Category:Israeli Jews

Category:Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent

Category:Chinese Zionists

Category:Chinese emigrants to Israel

Category:Writers from Harbin

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