The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Date: January 23, 1969
Media Type: Photo
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.
Date: September 8, 2003
Media Type: Video
Peter Golden explains Max Fisher's role negotiating between Meir and Nixon for re-supply to Israel.
Date: September 9, 2003
Media Type: Video
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Date: June 25, 1990
Media Type: Letter
Letter to President George H.W. Bush the Chairmen of the National Jewish Coalition.
Date: June 1, 1977
Media Type: Article
Milwaukee Journal article entitled "Detroit Refuses to Give Up" about the Detroit Renaissance.
Date: January 1, 1972
Media Type: Photo
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Date: September 5, 1968
Media Type: Photo
New Detroit article
Date: May 18, 1978
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher's retirement speech from United Brands
Date: December 4, 1994
Media Type: Letter
Congratulatory letter from President Gerald Ford to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
Date: January 1, 1965
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher and other Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters in 1965.
Date: February 8, 1973
Media Type: Photo
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Date: December 1, 1984
Media Type: Article
"The Gang of Eight" article
Date: April 1, 1973
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher, Gerald Ford and other members of the UJA and the State Department signing the contract in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the State Dept. Building.
Date: March 29, 1971
Media Type: Document
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
Date: November 28, 1994
Media Type: Letter
Congratulatory letter from Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.