Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, ‘Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History’

Originally published in Journal of Jewish Sociology 20:1 Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History, vii+295 pp., Sepher-Hermon Press with Yeshiva Univ. Press, New York, 1977, $12.50. This pioneering inquiry examines how inner censorship operated among Jews and promises to become the standard work on this fascinat­ing subject, giving the lie to the absurd…