The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher and other Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters in 1965.
Max Fisher and President Ronald Reagan in the oval office.
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
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.
Max Fisher, Paul Milstein and Seymour Milstein
"The Gang of Eight" article
Bob McCabe discusses Max Fisher's key role in the Detroit Renaissance, his leadership and his ability to build consensus.
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
Al Taubman talks about the key to Max's ability to raise funds.
Bar-Ilan Degree
Max Fisher speaking to the General Assembly in Philadelphia in 1976.
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s
Max Fisher speaking in a UJA fundraising video about the need to support Jewish people around the world.
Robert Aronson on Max Fisher's fundraising prowess.