The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Abba Eban dinner
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
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's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
Max discusses why he had been a successful fund-raiser.
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
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.
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Louis Hamburger, Edward C. Levy, Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Itzhak Rabin, and Samuel Hamburger during the Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters Meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.
Jewish Welfare Federation Plaque
Henry Ford II presents a check to Max M. Fisher and the United Jewish Appeal.
Robert Aronson talks about the quiet diplomat.
Congratulatory letter from George P. Shultz to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.