The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max Fisher in 1977
Max Fisher speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's success in fundraising.
1990 letter from Max M. Fisher to Secretary of State Jim Baker concerning Middle East peace policy.
Groundbreaking on the Riverfront Apartments
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
In 1974, the Hadassah Wizo of Canada, a Jewish women's philanthropic organization, inscribed Max Fisher as a governor of the Haifa Community College in Winnipeg.
A handsome token of appreciation given to Max and Marjorie Fisher from the Jewish Federation of Detroit, of which Max Fisher was president from 1959 to 1964.
Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
1994 National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony program showing Peter Golden and Mary Fisher as guest speakers.
Max M. Fisher at the Scopus Award Dinner with Alan E. Schwartz and President Gerald R. Ford.
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.