From Jew and non-Jew tributes to Dr. Lee K. Frankel continued yesterday from all parts of the country. His work on behalf of the Jewish Agency was lauded by Morris Rothenberg, national chairman of the American Palestine Campaign of which Dr. Frankel was treasurer. Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s campaign, praised Dr. Frankel’s work for suffering Jewry in Eastern Europe.
From his summer home in New Hampshire, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, acting chairman of administration of the Zionist Organization of America, mourned Dr. Frankel’s death as an irreparable loss to the cause of American Judaism and of the Palestine movement. Alfred M. Cohen, international president of B’nai Brith, declared that Dr. Frankel’s death creates a vacancy that will be very difficult to fill.
Homer Folks, secretary of the State Charities Aid Association, characterized Dr. Frankel as an eminent humanitarian while George J. Nelbach, executive secretary of the State Committee on Tuberculosis and Public Health, lauded Dr. Frankel’s services to modern medical science.
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