The Censorship of Hebrew Books

by William Popper

$45 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968 . Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. viii, 156pp. Original turquoise cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph of a page from R. Jacob b. Asher's Arbah Turim with blackout marks from a censor. First published in 1899, this dissertation stands as an important history of Church censorship of Jewish writing. Most of the book deals with the Counter-Reformation crackdown on Hebrew printing

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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