The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

The Resource Center provides access to a database of photos, video clips, letters, documents, newspaper articles, awards and other archival material. There are several user-friendly ways to search the Resource Center. The “Quick Search” field above offers a keyword search for those who know what they are looking for. Searches can also be filtered by Topic and Type from the pull-down menus to the right. Click on any item on this screen to see more detailed information. On each detail page, click on the Related Resources for additional items of related interest.

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Detroit Renaissance Construction
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
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.
Max Fisher with Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher and President George H. W. Bush outside the White House. Signed, "To Max - I love this shot. Your friend - George Bush"
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
1960 UJA Overseas Report
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Bob McCabe describes his early days as president of Detroit Renaissance.