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Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (often known simply as N. de Lange ) (7 August 1944, Nottingham ) is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge and is an ordained Reform rabbi .1He was taught and ordained by the British Reform rabbi Ignaz Maybaum , a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig .2He is a historian and author and has written and edited several books about Judaism , as well as various papers and articles. De Lange has translated several works of fiction by Amos Oz , S. 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 currently gives lectures on Modern Judaism and the Reading of Jewish texts at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge . He is a fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge .3
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Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (often known simply as N. de Lange ) (7 August 1944, Nottingham ) is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge and is an ordained Reform rabbi . He was taught and ordained by the British Reform rabbi Ignaz Maybaum , a disciple of Franz Rosenzweig .
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Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (7 August 1944, Nottingham ) is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge .
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He is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge .
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British Reform rabbi and historian 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 .
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professor of hebrew and jewish studies at the university of cambridge and is an ordained reform rabbi
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british reform rabbi and historian
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