The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Jane Sherman talks about her father's success in fundraising.
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
Tribute to Max Fisher
Chaim Weizmann Portrait
Congratulatory letter from Henry Kissinger to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
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.
Henry Ford II presents a check to Max M. Fisher and the United Jewish Appeal.
"Detroit Renaissance: A Decade of Progress and A Commitment to the Future," 1981 address by Max M. Fisher, Chairman of the Board, Detroit Renaissance, Inc.
Abba Eban dinner
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
In 1999 Max Fisher was named a Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News.
Max Fisher speaking to the General Assembly in Philadelphia in 1976.
Gene Miller remembers Max Fisher's integrity, honesty and ability to listen.
Max Fisher with Marjorie, Jane Sherman, and others at the JAFI Assembly in 1990.
Photographs of Max Fisher and Louis Pincus, the architects of the reconstitution of the Jewish Agency, in Israel in 1964.
Anti-Defamation League Honors