The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Detroit Renaissance Resolution of Appreciation Award
In 1984, Max Fisher wrote an article for the Detroit Free Press titled "Believe in a brighter future for Detroit."
Left to Right: Alan E. Schwartz, Joseph L. Hudson, Robert E. McCabe, Max M. Fisher, A. Alfred Taubman
Congratulatory letter from Henry Kissinger to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Bar-Ilan Degree
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Max Fisher presenting an award to Nate Appleman.
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Michigan Governor William Milliken
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Peter Cummings remembers Max Fisher's leadership and commitment to Detroit, and on his loyalty to people and causes.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, explains Fisher's lead-by-example fundraising strategy.
Letter to President George H.W. Bush the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.