[1] After immigrating to the United States, Kunitz received his doctorate from Columbia University, entitled Russian Literature and the Jew.
[5] He was part of a group of international writers touring Central Asia, with Kunitz and Louis Lozowick the only Americans invited.
[11] In his reporting, Kunitz expressed some skepticism about the Trials, and the subsequent controversy lead to the expulsion of New Masses editor Joseph Freeman from the Party.
[12] Kunitz published Dawn Over Samarkand in 1935, a book based on his travels to Russia and describing the emergence of Communism in the Far East after the Russian Revolution.
[17]In 1953, Grace Lumpkin testified that Kunitz had threatened to "break [her] as a writer" if she wrote anything the contradicted the Communist Party's line.