Nicholas de Lange

Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (7 August 1944, Nottingham) is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Nicholas de Lange
Academic background
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford
Academic work
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Website	https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/directory/de-lange

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.

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

1. De Lange, Nicholas (3 January 2019). "Amos Oz's reading voice was beautiful. Translating his books was a marvellously fulfilling experience". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 16 August 2020.