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 ( he, עמוס עוז; 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 onw ...

S. Yizhar Yizhar Smilansky (, 27 September 1916 – 21 August 2006), known by his pen name S. Yizhar (), was an Israeli writer and politician. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent figures in Israeli literature, he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1959 f ...

and

A. B. Yehoshua Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua ( he, אברהם גבריאל (בולי) יהושע; 9 December 1936 – 14 June 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. ''The New York Times'' called him the "Israeli William Faulkner, Faulkner". Under ...

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 ''A Tale of Love and Darkness'' ( he, סיפור על אהבה וחושך ''Sipur al ahava ve choshech'') is a memoir by the Israeli author Amos Oz, first published in Hebrew in 2002. The book has been translated into 28 languages and over a m ...

'' 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, 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 f ...

. 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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