This is an incomplete list of Jewish atheists who are notable by occupation or source of notability. This list includes individuals who have Jewish ancestry from either lineage regardless of religious adherence, unlike the tradition within Orthodox Judaism, which accepts only maternal lineage (Kiddushin 66b, Shulchan Aruch, EH 4:19). Here atheism is understood in its most inclusive sense as the absence of belief that any deities exist and, to a lesser extent, nontheism.
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“I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction—the Messiah.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)