Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (born 7 August 1944) is a British Reform rabbi and historian. He is Professor of

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and

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at the

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Academic and literary career

Nicholas de Lange is an emeritus fellow at

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. He has written and edited several books about

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and translated numerous works of fiction by

Amos Oz Amos Oz (; born Amos Klausner (); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a pro ...

, 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 ''

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'' by Amos Oz. He gives lectures on Modern Judaism and the Reading of Jewish texts at the Faculty of Divinity,

Rabbinic career

De Lange is a

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who studied with

Ignaz Maybaum Ignaz Maybaum (2 March 1897 – 12 June 1976) was a rabbi and 20th-century liberal Jewish theology, theologian. Life Maybaum was born in Vienna in 1897. His uncle was the rabbi Sigmund Maybaum. He studied in Berlin at the Hochschule für die W ...

, a disciple of

Franz Rosenzweig Franz Rosenzweig (; ; 25 December 1886 – 10 December 1929) was a German theologian, philosopher, and translator. Early life and education Franz Rosenzweig was born in Kassel, Germany, to an affluent, minimally observant Jewish family. His fa ...

. He is the main rabbi of Etz Hayyim Synagogue in

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Published works

* ''Origen and the Jews: Studies in Jewish-Christian Relations in Third-Century Palestine'' (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, 25) (1976),

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* ''Apocrypha: Jewish Literature of the Hellenistic Age'' (Jewish Heritage Classics) (1978), New York:

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* ''Atlas of the Jewish World'' (1984), Oxford:

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* ''Judaism'' (1986),

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* "Jesus Christ and Auschwitz" (1997), '' New Blackfriars'' Vol. 78, No. 917/918, pp. 308–316 * ''An Introduction to Judaism'' (2000), Cambridge University Press, , pp. 272 * ''The Penguin Dictionary of Judaism'' (Penguin Reference Library) (2008), , pp. 400

References

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