The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
Renaissance Center
Max Fisher and George Shultz with Jane Sherman at the Council of Jewish Federations General Assembly in San Francisco in 1990, during which Shultz was presented the Human Rights Award by his longtime friend Fisher.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Letter from President George H.W. Bush to Max M. Fisher, George Klein, and Richard Fox – the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Max M. Fisher prepares to accept the National Distinguished Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1994.
Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Henry Ford II presents a check to Max M. Fisher and the United Jewish Appeal.
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
1994 National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony program showing Peter Golden and Mary Fisher as guest speakers.
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.