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, 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