The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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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.
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
Letter from President Ronald Reagan to Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, regarding a visit from Max M. Fisher.
Max M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Max Fisher, Golda Meir and others
Robert Aronson on Max Fisher's fundraising prowess.
Operation Exodus Campaign Inaugural meeting
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
Letter to President George H.W. Bush the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
The Detroit riots, which began on July 23, 1967 led to 43 deaths, 7,200 arrests and a minimum of $42.5 million in damages.
Max Fisher with Richard Nixon in the White House
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
American Jewish Committee Human Relations Award
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.