Famous Converts to Judaism in History


RUTH

A famous Biblical story read on Shavuot.

WARDER CRESSON

The first famous convert to Judaism in America. His family put him on trial for insanity because he converted.

REUEL ABRAHAM

An ex-Nazi repents by becoming Jewish and moving to Israel

 ONKELOS

An ancient scholar and famous translator.

SHMAYA

A great Rabbinic sage, often mentioned with Avtalyon, also a convert.
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