The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.
Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
Detroit Renaissance Construction
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Congratulatory letter from Brian Kott, President of the Detroit Chapter of the AJC, to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award.
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
Al Taubman talks about the key to Max's ability to raise funds.
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
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.
Max discusses why he had been a successful fund-raiser.
Coleman Young amid construction of Detroit's Renaissance Center
Bar-Ilan Degree
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Louis Hamburger, Edward C. Levy, Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Itzhak Rabin, and Samuel Hamburger during the Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters Meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
Letter from President Ronald Reagan to Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, regarding a visit from Max M. Fisher.