The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Jewish Agency for Israel leaders Max M. Fisher and Louis Pincus in 1970.
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
Letter to President George H.W. Bush the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Abba Eban dinner
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
President Reagan's Task Force Welcoming Letter
Letters congratulating Max Fisher on his 1971 "What Can We Do for Detroit?" speech.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Max Fisher and George Shultz with Jane Sherman at the Council of Jewish Federations General Assembly in San Francisco in 1990, during which Shultz was presented the Human Rights Award by his longtime friend Fisher.
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
Max Fisher speaking in a UJA fundraising video about the need to support Jewish people around the world.
"The Amazing Life of Max Fisher" ran as the feature story on the front page of The Detroit Free Press on October 2, 2003 and detailed the life of the philanthropist and the opening of the Max M. Fisher Music Center at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Place.
Congratulatory letter from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Bob McCabe remembers how Max Fisher made the Ren Cen happen.
Max Fisher's retirement speech from United Brands