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. Robinson, Ezra Stone, and Lillian Taiz.