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, went as far as India and Nepal, for a few weeks. But he made tel Aviv his residence as long as thegranthe received from the Canadian Arts Council lasted. Reason? — "The people of Israel," says Mr. Irving Lay-ton.
: Aren't the people here the isame as everywhere? Perhaps, intrinsically, they are. But thg conditions in which they live give them aspecial something which distin-guislies them. Mr.. Layton, who supplements his poetry writing by free lance journalism, noticed the animated crowds passing outside the restaurants on Dizengoff, "thq main drag of Tel Aviv," and wondered whether those people believed Jordan, Egypt and Syria were on the other side of the moon. But he knows better, of course. The hostile Arab presence was always in the Israelis' mind. The link between the people and the armed forces is nowhere greater. "Here the loss of a single soldier is mourned as if it were a death in the family, as in a sense it is."
So far, being Jewish means, for Mr. Layton, belonging to the tradition of sufferance. Mr. Layton has no intention of breaking with this tradition. His father was a pious man from a small town near Bucharest who arrived in Canada just before Worl(J War I, when his son was a year old. His father was unable to persuade him to remain within the framework of religion. That the Israelis keep so much religion in their secular affairs rather irritates the poet, who does not seem to have found any reasonable explanation for it.
He still speaks Yiddish, but his knowledge of Jewish history is hazy. Indeed, native-born Israelis do not seem to him to be Jews at all — "or if he is he's wearing a heavy disguise". And Mr. Layton observes that "as the process of Israeli-zation continues, attempts at dialogue between those two historic halves of the Jewish community are prov-ing futile since they have nothing meaningful to say to each other."
Irving Layton remembers writing poetry ever since childhood. "At five, I composed jingles for our kindergarten games." In Montreal, where he grew up, the English-speaking Protest-' ants, the Friench-speaking Catholics and the Jews form "waUed-in" societies which never mix. "As the Protestants, are richer, their walls are higher and more profusely decorated." Both Protestants and Catholics used to keep the Jews at a distance. At University, Layton intended training as
a teacher but he was frankly told that therie was little future in it. So he graduated in Political Science.
His encounter with aiiti-Semitism gave rise to his first long poems, which were mUitant in spirit "Of course, the situation has changed considerably since," Mr. Layton hastens to add. He is now the Poet-in-Residence of the University which was hiis alma mater ■;- ' 'a post which involves a nice salary for having to wear long hair and coi^uct a workshop of prpinising young poets." Indeed, stocky Irving Layton wears his graying hair long enough to be recognized as a boheinian. Can one teach poetry? Certainly. Though one cannot make a man a poet
Poetry, the way Irving Layton writes it, is a melodious verbal impression-of feelings and thoughts. When "the swimmer plunges from his raft," he is "(^ningthe spray corollas by his act of war." On a crowded street "the traffic cop moving his lips. Like a poet composing Whistles a discovery of sparrows" about the poet's head.
He is happiest when he composes poems "Love, power, the huza of battle are something, are much; yet a poem includes them like a pool, water and reflection.
Politics, Mr. Layton says, in the broader sense, is what religion was in the 18th century to Milton: a universal system of behavior, the English Romantics .already were all engaged in politics. The modern man cannot escape it. Mr. Layton terms himself as a "humanitarian democrat." He hates dictatorship, whether right wing of left wing. "That is why I strongly support the Americans in Vietnam."
It is possibly this inseparable link between politics and life which brings Israel so close to his heart. Though "Israel retains the warmth, neighborliness, noisiness, narrowness, and claustrophobic intensity of the old shteU," it is also a highly politicized society, in the sense that public affairs take predominance over everything else. "Almost every discussion I've had in this country has started with and came back to this: the rationale for the State's ex-istance." Even a discussion with a woman on a poem Layton had written after visiting the "erotica" exhibition m *-Tel Aviv-gallery bec^e^ a^polltieal argument. There "was "a pressirfe to conform," Mr. Layton finds, which showed itself in "a collective foreshortening of the intellectual horizon."'
A new book of poems will be the result of Mr. Layton's prolonged stay.
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The Canadian JewisK News, Friday, August 3)3, 1968-Page 3
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HOSTED DE LEG ATiON.-Major General Artk Sharon (center). Israel's .Director of Military Training, the guest of honor at Toronto's twentieth anniyersBrv dinner, who yvas host to.members of the Toronto State Of Israel Bonds dellBgatlbn in Israel at the Officers Training Camp where they witnessed the techniques which have forged Israel's fighting men into world renowned defense forces.
AN AFTERNOON WITH B.G.-For the following ladles, a memorable occasion is the afternoon spent with former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, during the summer study-tour in Israel: (left to right) Mesdames Hy Lampert. Rose Glazier, Miss Wendy Sussman. Also: (continued, left to right) Mesdames Edwin Hyde. Norman Shaul. Mendel Israelson, David Cappe. Front row, Mrs. Irving Sussnrian and Ben Gurion.
; Tel Aviv (JCNS) - About 200 delegates from 14 coun- , tries are attending here the 13th Congress of their World Federation. Mr. Zeev Shar-ef, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, has addressed the meeting.
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Haifa, (JCNS) - A Haifa plant for the production of electronic tests aiid measurement instruments, with a sales target of $1-1/2 million in 1969, 90 per cent of it for export, will be opened in two months by the Monsanto Company of St. Louis, USA, and Elron Electronics.
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IN ISRAEL.-A group of executive committee members of the Toronto Israel Bonds Campaign who visited Israel recently on an intensive sixteen-day study tbur^ seen in Natanya: (left to right) Harry Frank, chairman, executive committee,* Max Sharp> who will be honored at a tribute dinner by Shaarei Shomayini Congregation in the fall, in cooperation with State of Israel Bondis; Dr. Norman Shaul, chairman. Orthodox congregatiohs; Edwin Hyde, co-chairman. Conservative synagogues; Irving Sussman, chairman. Reform temples; Albert I. Liptbn, executive director, Toronto State of Israel Bonds.
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