The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
Anti-Defamation League Honors
Renaissance Center
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Max Fisher holding his award with Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the American Hebrew Congregations, and Industrialist Lester Avnot.
Clips from 1969 articles highlighting Max Fisher's appointment as a Special Advisor to President Nixon.
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
Robert Aronson on Max Fisher's fundraising prowess.
An excerpt from The Congressional Record detailing the $50 million loan to Israel agreement.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
Max Fisher and President Ronald Reagan in the oval office.
Bob McCabe explains how the Ren Cen was a catalyst for revitalizing Detroit.
Max Fisher signing the Agreement for the Reconstitution of the newly Reconstituted Jewish Agency for Israel
Elie Weisel, Max Fisher and Golda Meir
Notes and text for Max Fisher's speech to the Detroit Renaissance meeting.
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.