Victor Jeremy Jerome (1896–1965) was an American communist writer and editor based in New York City.
As a young man, Isaac Roman emigrated at the age of 18 to the United States, and was recorded on the passenger list of the S/S St. Louis as a Hebrew (Jewish) tailor.
He did not finish college then, but began work as a bookkeeper for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union in the early 1920s.
In 1925, he married Rose Pastor Stokes, a writer and activist who was also of Polish Jewish ancestry and was seventeen years older than he.
Phelps Stokes, a wealthy Episcopalian businessman in New York who supported a settlement house and other philanthropic ventures.
He wrote two autobiographical novels, A Lantern for Jeremy (released during the "Foley Square Trials" in 1952), and its sequel, The Paper Bridge (published posthumously in 1966).
During this period he was chairman of the Party's Cultural Commission and was "considered a bluntly dogmatic thinker," serving a role in the US similar to that of Zhdanov in the Soviet Union.
[2] In the postwar period, Congress and local governments reacted to the Cold War with investigations of communist activity.
During a nine-month trial in New York's federal Foley Square Courthouse, Jerome passed the long hours in court writing poetry and reading page proofs of his memoir, A Lantern for Jeremy.