Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating to Jaffe's career as an actor and his personal life including his experience as a blacklisted actor in the 1950s. Subjects include Jaffe's lifelong friendship with Edward G. Robinson, an account of rehearsing a play with Max Reinhardt, an analysis of William Shakespeare's character Shylock, the Equity Library Theatre, and the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities. Correspondents include Bettye Ackerman, James Cagney, James T. Farrell, John Garfield, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Philip Loeb, Ferenc Molnár, Zero Mostel, Erwin Piscator, Max Reinhardt, Edward G. Robinson, Ezra Stone, and Lillian Taiz.