The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Max discusses why he had been a successful fund-raiser.
Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
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.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Max Fisher speaking at the 40th anniversary of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit at Shaarey Zedek Synagogue in Southfield, Michigan. (L-R) JCC President John H. Shepard, Max Fisher, Executive Director Alvin L. Kushner, and Judge Damon J. Keith.
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.