The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Max Fisher in 1977
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
A photograph of the then four living presidents, signed by each, presented to Max Fisher in 1998, along with a personal letter from Gerald Ford.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Max Fisher speaking in a UJA fundraising video about the need to support Jewish people around the world.
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.
Robert Aronson talks about the quiet diplomat.
Max Fisher, Gerald Ford and other members of the UJA and the State Department signing the contract in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the State Dept. Building.
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
An excerpt from The Congressional Record detailing the $50 million loan to Israel agreement.