List of former Jews

List of former Jews, or more accurately, people of Jewish ethnicity and adherents of Judaism who have converted to another (or no) religion. According to certain concepts of Jewish identity (cf. who is a Jew?), a Jew who converts to another (or no) religion is still "a Jew," by family and heritage alone, if not also by culture, and to a certain extent, belief (cf. monotheism).

• Bahá'í Faith
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Buddhism
• Atheism/Agnosticism

Undetermined

These individuals have left the Jewish faith for an undetermined ideology.

• Polemon II, king of Cilicia converted to marry the Jewish princess Berenice; later relapsed.
• Uriel da Costa, philosopher shunned for heresy.

See also

• Apostasy from Judaism
• Conversion to Judaism
• Crypto-Judaism
• Humanistic Judaism
• Jews and Buddhism
• Jewish atheism
• Jewish Buddhists
• Jewish secularism
• Jews for Jesus
• Messianic Judaism
• Off the derech (OTD)
• The Jew in the Lotus

References

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