The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Congratulatory letter from Bob Dole to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's success in fundraising.
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.
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 M. Fisher at the National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony in 1994.
Max Fisher at his office in the Fisher Building.
Max Fisher with Richard Nixon in the White House
United Jewish Appeal LBJ Plaque
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Max Fisher next to his sculpture at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
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 speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.