Ehud Olmert's Harbin Roots: A Manchurian Jewish Story

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In June 2004, Ehud Olmert — then Israel’s deputy prime minister and trade minister — slipped away from a business delegation in northeastern China for a private errand. He drove out to the Huangshan Jewish Cemetery on the wooded outskirts of Harbin and stood at the grave of his grandfather, Yosef Olmert. He laid stones on the headstone, recited the kaddish in Hebrew alongside his brother Amram, and afterwards spoke at length about a Chinese city he had never lived in but had grown up inside.

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Ehud Olmert's Harbin Roots: A Manchurian Jewish Story