The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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United Jewish Appeal LBJ Plaque
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Michigan Governor William Milliken
Tribute to Max Fisher
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.
Bob McCabe describes the relationship between Max Fisher and Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Max Fisher with Leon Dulzin, Joseph Sternstein, Charlotte Jacobson, and Ephraim Evron at the American Assembly for Zionism and Israel in 1981.
Left to Right: Phillip Hart, J.L. Hudson, Jr., Robert P. Griffin, and Max Fisher
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Renaissance Center and Riverfront
Congratulatory letter from President Gerald Ford to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Gene Miller remembers Max Fisher's integrity, honesty and ability to listen.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to The Texas Jewish Post in support of President Reagan's economic policy.
Photographs from the Conference on Human Needs in Israel, 1969.
Congratulatory letter from Bob Dole to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.