The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Coleman Young amid construction of Detroit's Renaissance Center
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.
Louis Pincus addressing the Founding Assembly of the Reconstituted JAFI in June 1971.
A personal letter from Secretary of State George Shultz.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
Congratulatory letter from Brian Kott, President of the Detroit Chapter of the AJC, to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award.
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
New Detroit article
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Jack J. Spitzer, President of B'nai B'rith International.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
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.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
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.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher