NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM, October 27, 1940 The top of page 16 has a four column heading: "Sounding of Ram's Horn Heralds Coming Of the Year 5701 for Jewish Race" with subhead and related photo. (see images)
Complete with 38 pages, light toning and some wear at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally good. Should be handled with care.

Background: Published in the New York World-Telegram during the solemn transition to Rosh Hashanah and the Hebrew year 5701, Elliott Arnold’s October 1940 editorial on the sounding of the ram’s horn (shofar) served as a profound, agonizingly timely call to courage that bridged ancient Jewish resilience with the terrifying realities of World War II. Writing at a moment when the Nazi blitzkrieg had swallowed Europe, the Blitz was ravaging Britain, and the horrific machinery of the Holocaust was rapidly accelerating, Arnold reframed the traditional, piercing cry of the shofar not merely as a lamentation for a devastated past year, but as an alarm of spiritual defiance and an unyielding declaration of survival. The immense historical significance of this editorial lay in its dual function: it provided a shattered, deeply anxious American and global Jewish community with a psychological anchor of historical continuity—reminding them that their faith and people had outlasted ancient tyrants and would outlast modern ones—while simultaneously translating a localized religious ritual into a universal, secular rallying cry for the preservation of human freedom against the rising tide of totalitarianism.