16 SEPTEMBER 1978, Page 16

Sir: In his article The lessons of Holocaust' (9 September)

Christopher Booker says it was 'cynical' the way the heroic Jewish family . . . was played by conspicuously unJewish looking actors'. Conspicuously? Would Mr Booker care to define 'Jewish looking' or are we to take his definition as being from the cartoons in Der Stuermer? Perhaps only genuine Jews should have played the Jewish roles — Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Tony Curtis etc. And why should not 'any old homey, cultured, allAmerican family' be Jewish?

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