page_title: List of converts to Christianity from Judaism
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hierarchical_section_title: List of converts to Christianity from Judaism / Z
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context_page_description: This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism.
  The Jewish Encyclopedia gives some statistics on conversion of Jews to Protestantism, to Roman Catholicism, and to Orthodox Christianity. Some 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year during the 19th century, but in the 1890s the number was running closer to 3,000 per year—1,000 in Austria Hungary, 1,000 in Russia, 500 in Germany, and the remainder in the English world.
  The 19th century saw at least 250,000 Jews convert to Christianity according to existing records of various societies. Data from the Pew Research Center that as of 2013, about 1.6 million adult Americans of Jewish background identify themselves as Christians, most are Protestant. According to same data most of the Americans of Jewish background who identify themselves as some sort of Christian were raised as Jews or are Jews by ancestry. According to 2012 study 17% of Jews in Russia identify themselves as Christians. According to Heman in Herzog-Hauck, "Real-Encyc.", the number of converts during the 19th century exceeded 100,000. Salmon, in his Handbuch der Mission claims 130,000; others claim as many as 250,000.
context_section_description: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. – American actor
  Israel Zolli – former Chief Rabbi of Rome
caption: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
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