The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem Honorary Doctorate
Max Fisher meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Edsel Ford explains why his father, Henry, liked Max Fisher.
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.
Louis Pincus addressing the Founding Assembly of the Reconstituted JAFI in June 1971.
Left to Right: Alan E. Schwartz, Joseph L. Hudson, Robert E. McCabe, Max M. Fisher, A. Alfred Taubman
Operation Exodus Campaign Inaugural meeting
Bob McCabe discusses Max Fisher's key role in the Detroit Renaissance, his leadership and his ability to build consensus.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Peter Cummings explains why Max Fisher is such an effective fund-raiser.
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
1990 letter from Max M. Fisher to Secretary of State Jim Baker concerning Middle East peace policy.