Ella Goldberg Wolfe and Bertram Wolfe worked at the
Rand School. After the passage of the
Sedition Act of 1918, they were forced to go underground, living under assumed names. They lived for a time in
Mexico City, where their circle of friends included
Frida Kahlo and
Diego Rivera. In 1929, they moved to
Moscow but fell out with
Stalin; they left two years later and returned to
Brooklyn. Wolfe earned a degree in Spanish from
Columbia University and went on to teach Spanish literature at Hunter College and in
public schools in
New York City. After Stalin aligned himself with
Hitler in 1939, Wolfe and her husband abandoned communism and became anti-communists. At the time, the couple found themselves hated by the left and distrusted by the political right. In 1966, Wolfe moved to the
Hoover Institution at
Stanford University, where she spent her time editing her husband's papers and providing eyewitness accounts to researchers of the historic times in which she lived. ==Personal life and death==