Simple rites marked the funeral of Dr. Lee K. Frankel, the joint-chairman of the Jewish Agency Council, who died suddenly in Paris on July 26th.
The body of Dr. Frankel arrived here from Paris last Thursday. The funeral of the deceased was attended by many prominent personalities including Jewish leaders.
Paying tribute to the late Dr. Frankel, Felix M. Warburg, characterized Dr. Frankel as a "dear, noble, and extarodinary friend.
"In his passing," Mr. Warburg said, "I feel that I have lost a dear, noble and extraordinary friend who cannot be replaced. His death is a very painful and severe blow to all of those who had the privilege of knowing him and of working with him in his many activities for the improvement of social and living conditions.
"I have had the privilege," Mr. Warburg continued, " of meeting and cooperating with him for almost 40 years, and his wise counsel, his human interest, his personal charm and his great tact endeared him to me as it did to all who came in contact with him. We who loved him feel grateful that he did not suffer as some of us felt might have been his lot since he had some warnings that his constitution was breaking down under great strain. He will be sadly missed whenever people come together to try to work out knotty problems of community life.
"Through his work in the United Hebrew Charities, he developed understanding and sympathy with those who had to come to the community for charity. Through his connection with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, he was familiar with the problems of almost every layer of the population in this beehive. In building up the many-sized activities of the Federation of Jewish Charities, he developed a breadth of vision which was extraordinary and his fairness made him most valuable not only in the construction but in the administration of the Federation’s funds in many directions. In the training of social workers he was both an understanding trustee and a sympathetic guide and in the Welfare Council, which has embraced philanthropic activities of all creeds disregarding denominational lines, his counsel was sought and welcomed.
"But his sympathies were not only city-wide and United States-wide; his understanding extended to all parts of Europe and Palestine; on the Joint Distribution Committee he served faithfully and was beloved by contributor, administrator and recipient alike for he was equally close to all three and he knew them all personally and intimately. In the last few years he gave a good deal of time to the development of the Jewish work in Palestine. He was wise, constructive, and was not guided by visionary promises but by solid facts. We were colleagues in the Commission that studied Palestinian conditions and only a few weeks ago he was elected to a leading position in the Jewish Agency Council."
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