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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“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die.”
—Philip Roth (20th century)