Fred Jordan, the publishing partner of Barney Rosset, whose groundbreaking Grove Press and Evergreen Review fended off government censors to introduce avant-garde authors who inspired the counterculture of the 1960s, died April 19 in Brooklyn. He was 95.

“The lifting of the ban on language had far-reaching significance, not just for writers and readers,” Mr. Jordan would tell students at New York University in a lecture he occasionally delivered. “Much of what later came to be known as the counterculture received its impetus from a new spirit of liberalism and freedom, which arose out of the new openness and the removal of old restraints.”

Mr. Jordan was a Holocaust survivor. He was to have been bar mitzvahed in his home town of Vienna on Nov. 9, 1938, but the ceremony was pre-empted by Kristallnacht. Fred escaped Vienna as part of the Kindertransport. His father was arrested but later smuggled out of Austria. He survived the war in the basement of a Belgian church. His mother was interned in the Lodz ghetto in German-occupied Poland in 1940, then transported to the Chelmno extermination camp.