One of the articles I read in the Gale Virtual reference Library was titled “ Censorship” in the enclopedia Judaica. The article talked of the censorship of Jewish literature starti8ng with the Catholic church, then moving into the government restrictions, and lastly into the jewish rabbinical hierarchy censor the ideas they didn’t want proselytized.

The Catholic church did the Jewish people dirty! They banned everything from the Talmud which is akin to the bible and holds just as much significance to the Jewish people as the bible does to Christians. They censored all Jewish writings from the mid 13^th century to 1943, yes I said 1943.

Government of Jewish writings seems to spring from the church’s ban, they carried to the extreme in Germany banning any writings from any Jewish person including well known authors such as Sigmund Freud May 10. 1933.

Then comes worst censors of all themselves, the Rabbi’s whom didn’t want seditious ideas to leak out there would put the kibosh on anything nearing an opposing view this stretches back to early Christian times and beyond.

armilly-Weinberger, Moshe. "Censorship." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Vol. 4. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 539-541. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 24 Apr. 2013.

So the Wikipedia Article reiterated much of what the other article was saying but in much less depth. The article was generalized and left out which churches were censoring, but also brought up the fact that now the ones do most of the censoring are the Jewish Rabbinical Leaders once agin if it doesn’t fit in with how they believe they ban it from there congregations.  

Wikipedia contributors. "Censorship by religion." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 Mar. 2013. Web. 24 Apr. 2013.

So it says to summarize my experience between Wiki and GVRL. Well the GVRL is like a hamberger from Red Robin all big, filling, and delicious; while wiki is like Mcdonalds burger good but not filling, not really delicious and definitely not Red Robin's. 

Three Questions for deeper research. 

When did the Sanhedrin start banning heretical writings in what year B.C. ?

What was the Catholic Churches censorship derived from? What were they afraid of?

What can the Jewish people learn from this 2500 years of being censored? Do they want to?