{"id":3937,"date":"2026-05-14T01:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:50:05","slug":"novel-advertisement-forverts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/arts\/novel-advertisement-forverts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Advertisement &#8211; Forverts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-3.03.31-PM-1024x690.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-3.03.31-PM-1024x690.png 1024w, https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-3.03.31-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-3.03.31-PM-768x518.png 768w, https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-3.03.31-PM-142x96.png 142w, https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-30-at-3.03.31-PM.png 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Translation:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWHO WAS THE UNINVITED GUEST?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young businessman Joe Reisberg; his wife Rose, the daughter of a rich real estate man, Benjamin Weintraub;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The girl Gladys Lieberson, with an illegitimate child, who is born in secret.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She has complaints to him: the child she will give birth to is his child.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How should Joe act? What should he do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AND THERE ARE STILL UNINVITED GUESTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Left) A novel with an interesting plot based on real life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Right) Start reading the novel, and read it every day!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: scanned Yiddish newspaper from the National Library of Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/items\/79cbc5d0-d1b1-0133-f5bc-00505686a51c\">ht<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/en\/newspapers\/frw\/1930\/06\/02\/01\/?&amp;e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1\">tps:\/\/digitalcollections.nypl.org\/items\/79cbc5d0-d1b1-0133-f5bc-00505686a51c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Translated by Greta Milstein&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barnard College \u201824<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Translation:\u00a0 \u201cWHO WAS THE UNINVITED GUEST? The young businessman Joe Reisberg; his wife Rose, the daughter of a rich real estate man, Benjamin Weintraub;&nbsp; The girl Gladys Lieberson, with an illegitimate child, who is born in secret.&nbsp; Joe Reisberg is in between two fires. He wants to live with his wife; he wants to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,152,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-newspaper","category-yiddish-images","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9teox-11v","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishstudiescolumbia.com\/myny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}