Nicholas de Lange

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Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (often known simply as N. de Lange) (August 7, 1944, Nottingham) is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge and is an ordained Reform rabbi. He is a historian and author who wrote several authoritative books about Judaism, as well as various papers. His own publications include "An Introduction to Judaism" and "Atlas of the Jewish World", and "Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World". De Lange is also a translator of several works of fiction by Amos Oz and by A.B. Yehoshua. He worked closely with the late British Reform rabbi Ignaz Maybaum.

He lectures on the subject of Life, Thought and Worship in Modern Judaism at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. De Lange is a fellow of Wolfson College.