The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Al Taubman talks about the key to Max's ability to raise funds.
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Max Fisher holding his award with Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the American Hebrew Congregations, and Industrialist Lester Avnot.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
The Alpha Kappa Psi Civic Award, "For service to country and community and inspiring leadership," presented to Max Fisher in 1970 by the Delta Theta Chapter of the University of Detroit.
Max Fisher with Richard Nixon in the White House
A handwritten letter to Max M. Fisher from an L.A. Times reader thanking him for his role in negotiating the Rogers Plan.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
A handsome token of appreciation given to Max and Marjorie Fisher from the Jewish Federation of Detroit, of which Max Fisher was president from 1959 to 1964.
Robert Aronson reflects on Max Fisher's historic influence on behalf of Israel.
Renaissance Center and Riverfront
Gerald Ford discusses Max Fisher's effectiveness.
United Jewish Appeal LBJ Plaque