The Yiddish Scientific Institute–YIVO–will publish a history of the Jewish labor movement in the United States, it was announced here today. Dr. Reich, Professor of Economics at Hunter College, is editor-in-chief of the project. The history will appear in a four-volume edition in English and in a five-volume edition in Yiddish. The first volume, in English, is slated to mark the American Jewish Tercentenary.
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