Nicholas de Lange

Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (born 7 August 1944) is a British Reform rabbi and historian. He is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Academic and literary career

Nicholas de Lange is an emeritus fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has written and edited several books about Judaism and translated numerous works of fiction by Amos Oz,^[1] S. Yizhar and A. B. Yehoshua into English. In November 2007, he received the Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation from the Hebrew for his translation of A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz.

He gives lectures on Modern Judaism and the Reading of Jewish texts at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

Rabbinic career

De Lange is a Reform rabbi who studied with Ignaz Maybaum, a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig. He is the main rabbi of Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Chania.

Published works

• Origen and the Jews: Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations in Third-Century Palestine (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 25) (1976), Cambridge University Press
• Apocrypha: Jewish Literature of the Hellenistic Age (Jewish Heritage Classics) (1978), New York: Viking Press
• Atlas of the Jewish World (1984), Oxford: Phaidon Press
• Judaism (1986), Oxford University Press
• "Jesus Christ and Auschwitz" (1997), New Blackfriars Vol. 78, No. 917/918, pp. 308–316
• An Introduction to Judaism (2000), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521460736, pp. 272
• The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism (Penguin Reference Library) (2008), ISBN 978-0141018478, pp. 400

References

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  Reform Judaism in the United Kingdom  

Rabbis

Living	Tony Bayfield Miriam Berger Barbara Borts Helen Freeman Laura Janner-Klausner Deborah Kahn-Harris Nicholas de Lange Josh Levy Jonathan Magonet Nancy Morris Julia Neuberger Jonathan Romain Sylvia Rothschild Sybil Sheridan Jackie Tabick Mark Winer
Historical	Leo Baeck Charles Berg Lionel Blue Curtis Cassell Albert Friedlander Hugo Gryn Arthur Löwenstamm Philip Magnus Ignaz Maybaum Harold Reinhart Sheila Shulman Werner van der Zyl

Lay leaders

• Sir Sigmund Sternberg

Communities and synagogues in the
Movement for Reform Judaism

London	Bromley Edgware Finchley Hendon Hatch End (Kol Chai) Harrow (Mosaic) Ilford Redbridge (Sukkat Shalom) Temple Fortune (North Western/Alyth) West Hampstead (Shir Hayim) Whetstone (Sha'arei Tsedek: North London) Wimbledon
Manchester	Manchester Reform Whitefield (Sha'arei Shalom) Sharston (Menorah)
Elsewhere	Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood (Tikvah Chadasha) Brighton and Hove Cambridge Cardiff Cornwall Coventry Darlington Glasgow Harlow Hull Isle of Wight Leeds Liverpool Maidenhead Milton Keynes Newcastle Radlett Ramsgate Sheffield South Hampshire Southend Southport Totnes Weybridge

Independent communities and synagogues

• West London
• Westminster

Organisations

• Leo Baeck College
• Sternberg Centre