Books: Enough!

JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND: THE NEW GERMANY by Amos Eton. 259 pages. Holt, R/neharf & Winston. $6.50.

No murderer ever escapes his victims; they are linked irrevocably through guilt and revenge. Just as Nazi Germany was mankind's most methodical mass mur derer, the Jew is mankind's most experienced victim. The intelligence of his Talmudic tradition is analytical and speculative, but the intelligence of his history is empirical: survival demands more than a dwelling on the past; it requires careful soundings of the symptomatic currents of the present.

Thus it is understandable that Israel...

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