The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Christmas shoppers in Detroit in the 1950s
Peter Cummings describes what it's like to work with Max Fisher.
Bob McCabe describes his early days as president of Detroit Renaissance.
The Detroit Riots of 1967
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Left to Right (seated): Gottlieb Hammer (Executive Vice Chairman, UIA); Melvin Dubinsky (President and Board Chairman of UIA); Frank Kellogg (Special Assistant to the Secretary of State) Left to Right (standing): Simcha Dinitz (Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.); Leonard Garment (Special Consultant to President Nixon); Walter Stoessel, Jr. (Assistant Secretary for European Affairs); Joseph Sisco (Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs); Marshall Wright (Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations); Max M. Fisher (Chairman, Jewish Agency Board of Governors).
Clips from 1969 articles highlighting Max Fisher's appointment as a Special Advisor to President Nixon.
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly
Congratulatory letter from Teddy Kollek to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Louis Pincus addressing the Founding Assembly of the Reconstituted JAFI in June 1971.
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Letter to Max M. Fisher from Moshe Arad, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.