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Victor Jeremy Jerome (1896–1965) was an American communist writer and editor based in New York City. He is best remembered as a Marxist cultural essayist and as the long-time editor of The Communist, later known as Political Affairs, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA.
V. J. Jerome. Home -. V. J. Jerome. Born in a Polish ghetto, Victor Jeremy Jerome subsequently moved to London and from there came to New York. He joined the Communist Party in 1927 and in 1937 he became chairman of the U.S. Communist Party’s Cultural Commission and also began editing The Communist, which later became Political Affairs, the ...
A prolific writer, he turned out short stories, plays, and literary and art criticisms. Victor Jerome is best known, however, for his political and cultural essays. Among these are "The Intellectuals and the War" (1940), "The Negro in Hollywood Films" (1950), and "Culture in a Changing World" (1948).
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Victor J. Jerome: American communist, writer, political activist; member of the American Communist Party (1924-1965), rising in the 1930s to Cultural Commissioner; editor of The Communist (later Political Affairs) from 1935-1955; co-defendant in the 1952 Foley Square Trials as a violator of the Smith Act (U.S. 1940); journalist and author
and eulogies, and other personal and family papers of Victor J. Jerome, American communist, writer, editor of Political A=airs, and political activist. The bulk of the papers relate primarily to Jerome's activities with the American Communist Party during the period from 1930 to 1965.
Jerome Isaac Romain was born in Stryków, Poland in 1896. He was sent to London before moving to New York City in 1915. (1) Romain attended the City College of New York. After leaving college he worked as a bookkeeper for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. During this period he adopted the name Victor Jerome (V. J. Jerome).
