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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...
Of the 965 individual recipients of the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences between 1901 and 2023, [1] at least 216 have been Jews or people with at least one Jewish parent, representing 22% of all recipients. Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world's population, meaning their share of winners is 110 times their ...
Today, according to 2013 data from the Pew Research Center, about 1.6 million adult American Jews identify themselves as Christians, most of them Protestant. [18] [19] [20] Of those, most were raised as Jews or are Jews by ancestry. [19] According to a 2012 study 17% of Jews in Russia identify themselves as Christians.
Géza Vermes, world-renowned historical Jesus research scholar, Hebraist and historian of religion, best known for being an eminent translator of the Dead Sea Scrolls; [39] [40] a former Roman Catholic priest of Jewish descent, he rediscovered his Jewish roots, abandoned Christianity and converted to Liberal Judaism. [39] [40]
Paul Friedmann (1840–c. 1900), German philanthropist, founded the short-lived Midian colony as a safe haven for Russian Jews; Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), born in Vishnevo, Russian Empire, founder and president of the World Zionist Congress; Shulamit Goldstein (1914–2011), born in Ukraine, underground militant and member of the Irgun. [1]
Ayya Khema, Buddhist teacher (born Jewish) Adolf Lasson. Georg Lasson; Johannes Pfefferkorn, antisemitic controversialist (born Jewish) Friedrich Adolf Philippi; Johann Peter Spaeth (Moses Germanus Ashkenazi), a Christian German Proselyte; Edith Stein, canonized nun, Holocaust victim (born Jewish)
The first identifiable congregation made up exclusively of Jews who had converted to Christianity was established in the United Kingdom in 1813; [4] a group of 41 Jewish Christians established an association called "Beni Abraham", and started meeting at Jews' Chapel in London for prayers Friday night and Sunday morning; [5] In 1885, the first Hebrew Christian church was established in New York ...
G.E.M. — notable Hong Kong singer who was baptized and became a Christian in 2011. [85] Vanity — former front woman of Vanity 6 who after becoming a Christian renounced her stage name and music and started to preach in different parts of the U.S. [86] [87] [88]