Translation: 

“WHO WAS THE UNINVITED GUEST?

The young businessman Joe Reisberg; his wife Rose, the daughter of a rich real estate man, Benjamin Weintraub; 

The girl Gladys Lieberson, with an illegitimate child, who is born in secret. 

Joe Reisberg is in between two fires. He wants to live with his wife; he wants to do good by the Weintraub family, but the girl Gladys Lieberson is in his way. 

She has complaints to him: the child she will give birth to is his child. 

How should Joe act? What should he do?

AND THERE ARE STILL UNINVITED GUESTS.

… 

(Left) A novel with an interesting plot based on real life. 

(Right) Start reading the novel, and read it every day!”

Source: scanned Yiddish newspaper from the National Library of Israel https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/79cbc5d0-d1b1-0133-f5bc-00505686a51c

The Forward (Forverts) is a Jewish newspaper in New York City founded by a by a group socialist immigrants from Eastern-Europe in 1897. This book advertisement was found in column 1 of page 2 in a Forverts issue from June 2, 1930. It intrigues the reader with a suspenseful headline and blurb about the dramatic plot. 

Translated by Greta Milstein 

Barnard College ‘24