The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Bar-Ilan Degree
Congratulatory letter from Teddy Kollek to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
"Believe in a brighter future for Detroit" article
Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
New Detroit article
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly
Operation Exodus Campaign Inaugural meeting
Michigan Senate 80th Birthday Honors
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max M. Fisher, George Klein, and Richard Fox – the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Max Fisher meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.