Jacob M. Budish, a sociologist, economist and author, for years active in the Jewish labor movement, died here at the age of 80.
Born in Russia, near Kiev, he graduated from the Kiev Commercial Institute, and, in 1912, emigrated to the United States where he studied at the University of Chicago and at Columbia University. For 14 years, from 1916 to 1930, he served as editor of the Hatgear Worker, organ of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers Union.
Mr. Budish was one of the founders of Ambijan, an organization supporting the settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, in eastern Siberia. He was the author of several economic books, including “Soviet Foreign Trade,” “People’s Capitalism,” “The Changing Structure of the Working Class” and “Is Communism the Next Stage?” During World War I, he wrote a monograph about anti-Semitism in the Ukraine, The document was said to have reached President Wilson at the time of its publication.
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