Early Life
Jaffe was born in upstate New York on a small family farm run by her Jewish parents. Her father was a poultry farmer and her mother an elementary school teacher. As a child she was influenced by her Communist relatives, their influence was reflected in her later revolutionary involvement. After high school she went on to attend Brandeis University and studied Marxism in a few classes with the professor and political theorist Herbert Marcuse.
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