or maddening metaphor that might have caused Shelley to blush, or Wordsworth to disclaim, or the prophets to ask, where was God in all this?Yet Irving [Layton]--teaching us in the mid-'50s, writing in the shadow of the Holocaust and the rebirth of the state of Israel--was alive always to the vulnerability of the powerless and the powerlessness of the vulnerable. He became the voice of the voiceless; and it was a voice profoundly Jewish--though not religious, and unwaveringly universalistic in its message.
from The Gazette: Irving Layton: teacher and friend
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