The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Operation Exodus Campaign Inaugural meeting
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
"The Amazing Life of Max Fisher" ran as the feature story on the front page of The Detroit Free Press on October 2, 2003 and detailed the life of the philanthropist and the opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Place.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
A photograph of the then four living presidents, signed by each, presented to Max Fisher in 1998, along with a personal letter from Gerald Ford.
Max Fisher with Henry Kissinger in the White House. Signed, "To Max Fisher - With the affection and admiration of his friend - Henry A. Kissinger."
Robert Aronson talks about the quiet diplomat.
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Anti-Defamation League Honors
Construction of Renaissance Center
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Left to Right: Dan Lavin, Art Howard, Max Fisher, Abe Green, John Leerie, and Joseph Holtzman take a break for lunch during the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign.