An Atheist Jew is a member of the Jewish community who does not believe in God but still considers himself or herself a Jew. Some Jewish atheists retain customs of the Jewish faith, while others identify as Jewish primarily through ethnic or cultural ties.
Because Jewishness encompasses ethnic as well as religious components, it should be noted that the term "Atheist Jew" does not imply any kind of contradiction, unlike, for example "Atheist Methodist" or "Atheist Baptist." Even the most Orthodox of Jewish authorities would accept as fully Jewish an atheist with a Jewish mother, according to Jewish law's emphasis on matrilineal descent.
Jewish atheism can take both organized and unorganized forms. On the one hand, there is a long tradition of atheistic and secular Jewish organizations, from the Jewish socialist Bund in early twentieth-century Poland to the modern Society for Humanistic Judaism in the United States. Many Jewish atheists feel comfortable within any of the four major Jewish denominations (Orthodox, Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist). Again, this presents less of a contradiction than might first seem apparent given even traditional Judaism's emphasis on practice over belief. Much recent Jewish theology makes few if any metaphysical claims and is thus compatible with atheism on an ontological level. The founder of the Reconstructionist movement, MordechaiKaplan, espoused a naturalistic definition of God, while some post-Holocaust theology has also eschewed a personal God.
Other Jewish atheists remain deeply uncomfortable with the use of theistic language, however defined. However, for such Jews traditional practice and symbolism can still retain powerful meaning. For example, to an Atheist Jew, the Menorah might represent the infinite power of the Jewish spirit. No mention of a divine force in Jewish history would be accepted literally; the Torah may be viewed as a common mythology of the Jewish people, not a faith document or correct history.
There are a number of people who were although have Jewish ancestory are atheists and do not concider themselves Jews. The has been some movement in some Jewish groups about deciding that Judaism is a religion, not a race, stating that non-practicing Jews should be called simply 'atheists" not "atheist Jews".
Many Jewish atheists would reject even this level of ritualized and symbolic identification, instead embracing a thorough-going secularism and basing their Jewishness entirely in ethnicity and secular Jewish culture.
Famous Jewish atheists include SigmundFreud, KarlMarx and WoodyAllen.
Charles V (58), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Spain.
Harrison, George (58, brain tumour), English leadgitarist ("The Beatles").
HEINE, Heinrich (58), German poet and essayist.
LÉVY, [aKa Pierre VICTOR], Benny (58), French writer and philosopher.
Proesmans, Roos (58), Belgian Women's rights activist ("Dolle Mina").
Robert, Malcolm (58), English singer.
RUBINER, Ludwig (58), German poet and dramatist.
Sullivan, Sir Arthur (58, bronchitis), English composer and conductor.
TOEPLITZ, Otto (58), German mathematician.
White, Barry (58, stroke), U.S. soul singer.
YANOVSKY, Zal (58, heart attack), U.S. gitarist ("The Lovin Spoonful").
Corelli, Arcangelo (59), Italian composer.
Best, George (59, pneumonia), Irish footballer.
Fry, Varian M. (59, heart attack), U.S. journalist, editor and classicist, known as "the American Schindler"; became a 'Righteous Among The Nations' (Yad Vashem - 1995).
Gable, Clark (59, heart attack), U.S. actor.
Herder, Johann Gottfried (59), German critic and poet.
Holst, Gustav (59), English composer.
LOESSER, Frank (59, lung cancer), U.S. composer.
MONTAIGNE, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de (59), French essayist.
Racine, Jean (59), French dramatist and poet.
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Ritter von (59), Austrian lawyer and writer.
Satie, Erik (59), French composer.
Springfield [b. Mary O'Brien OBE], Dusty (59, breast cancer), English pop and soul singer.
Biddeloo, Karel (60, cancer), Belgian comic artist ("The Red Knight").
Brassens, Georges (60, cancer), French singer-songwriter and poet.
Derickson [b. Ulrike Patzelt], Uli (60, cancer), U.S. TWA flight attendant of Czech origin ('Silver Cross for Valor').
Klee, Paul (60, tuberculosis), Swiss-born painter.
Ouwens, Kees (60), Dutch poet and writer.
Smetana, Bedrich (60, dementia due syphilis), Czech composer.
Vliet, Eddy van (60, brain tumour), Belgian/Flemish poet and lawyer.
WASSERMANN, Jakob (60), German novelist.
Hegel, G.W. Friedrich (61); German philosopher.
OFFENBACH [b. Jacob EBERST], Jacques (61), German-born French composer.
RASKIN, Jef (61, pancreatic cancer), U.S. computer engineer, mathematician and interface designer (Apple 'Macintosh').
Zimmerman, Denise (61), Belgian actress.
Anthierens, Johan (62, Hodgkin's Lymphoma disease), Belgian journalist, satirist and writer.
Dvorák, Antonin (62), Czech composer.
Faith, Adam (62, coronary), English pop singer and actor.
GAINSBOURG, Serge [b. Lucien GINZBURG] (62, heart attack), French poet and singer-songwriter.
Jean Paul [b. Richter] (62), German novelist.
KRAUS, Karl (62), Austrian critic, dramatist and publisher.
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero (62), Italian composer.
Luther, Martin (62), German religious reformer.
Melcher, Terry (62, cancer), U.S. music producer.
OPPENHEIMER, J. Robert (62, cancer of the throat), U.S. nuclear physicist.
Ravel, Maurice (62, brain damage due a surgery), French composer.
Rubens, Sir Peter Paul (62), Belgian/Flemish painter.
Van Avermaet, Daniël (62), Belgian film producer and restaurateur.
Lord (Gareth) Williams of Mostyn (62), English Labour Party politician and lawyer ('House of Lords').
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig Josef (62, prostate cancer), Austrian-born English philosopher.
Zola, Émile (62, accidentally suffocated by charcoal fumes), French novelist.
Brahms, Johannes (63), German composer.
Britten, Benjamin (63), English composer.
Rembrandt van Rijn (63), Dutch painter.
Vivaldi, Antonio (63, infection), Italian composer.
My beloved -maternal- GRANDMOTHER (63, cancer).
Some non-natural deaths:
diarist Anne FRANK (15, murdered in KZ); Lady Jane Grey (16, executed); Caesarion (17, murdered); poet Thomas Chatterton (17, poisoned himself); pharaoh Tutankhamun ["King Tut"] (18, murdered); Joan of Arc (19, executed); Eddie Cochran (21, car accident); revolutionary hero Cpt. Nathan Hale (21); Buddy Holly (22, air disaster); athlete Ivo Van Damme (22, car accident); singer Ian Curtis (23, suicide); actor River PHOENIX (23, drug-induced heart failure); James Dean (24, car accident); John Wilkes Booth (26); singer Nick Drake (26, overdose of antidepressants); Lucan (26, suicide); Gram Parsons (26, drug overdose); Kurt Cobain (27, suicide); Jimi Hendrix (27, overdose of sleeping pills); Janis Joplin (27, overdose of heroin); Jim Morrison (27, drug overdose?); Tim Buckley (28, overdose); singer Marc BOLAN (29, car accident); Anne Boleyn (29, beheaded); poet/playwright Christopher Marlowe (29, stabbed); Romantic poet Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley (29, drowned); Hank Williams (29, accidental overdose of morphine & alcohol); Jeff Buckley (30, drowned); matador 'Manolete' (30); painter Keith Haring (31, AIDS); emperor Nero (31, suicide?); businessman Brian EPSTEIN (32, overdose); racing cyclist Marco Pantani (34, suicide); singer Elliott Smith (34, suicide); actor Patrick Dewaere (35, suicide); singer Mary Hansen (36); Marilyn Monroe (36, overdose of barbiturates); director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (37, overdose); boxer Sonny Liston (38, drug overdose); poet/dramatist Federico García Lorca (38, executed); composer Howard ASHMAN (40, AIDS); John Lennon (40, murdered); actress Marie Trintignant (41, murdered); singer Freddie Mercury (45, AIDS); Yukio Mishima (45, suicide); satirist Kurt TUCHOLSKY (45, suicide?); author Albert Camus (46, car accident); film maker Theo van Gogh (47, slaughtered); Dee Dee Ramone (49, overdose); general Aleksandr Lebed (52, air disaster); master chef Bernard Loiseau (52, suicide); Herman Brood (54, suicide); Pim Fortuyn (54, murdered); politician Jürgen Möllemann (57, suicide); Alain Van der Biest (58, suicide); Rock Hudson (59, AIDS); mathematician Lev D. LANDAU (60, car accident), poet Paul Snoek (47, car accident).
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