MENSCH BEFORE MOGUL

Perhaps Steven Zipperstein and I did not read the same book (Neal Gabler’s “An Empire of Their Own,” Book Review, Nov. 5), but when he singles out Jack Warner as a humanitarian and leaves out Carl Laemmle, not only does he misread Gabler, but the facts as well.

Yes, Warner was a movie mogul, but “Uncle Carl” was a warm Jewish mensch first .

Leaving Carl Laemmle out of any discussion of Hollywood, “Where were you while the Holocaust was going on” is a travesty of omission.

FRED BENDLER

(One of Laemmle’s “nephews”)

NORTH HOLLYWOOD