The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Date: July 22, 1975
Media Type: Photo
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
Media Type: Award
Anti-Defamation League Honors
Date: April 18, 1966
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher holding his award with Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the American Hebrew Congregations, and Industrialist Lester Avnot.
Date: June 1, 1971
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher with future Israeli President Ephraim Katzir and Louis Pincus at the Founding Assembly for the Reconstituted JAFI in Jerusalem in 1971.
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.
Media Type: Photo
Groundbreaking for Renaissance Center
Date: September 8, 2003
Media Type: Video
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
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: June 1, 1971
Media Type: Photo
Max Fisher, Golda Meir and others
Date: October 1, 1967
Media Type: Photo
Bar-Ilan Degree
Date: October 4, 1983
Media Type: Award
Max Fisher Jewish Community Foundation Dedication
Date: September 6, 2003
Media Type: Video
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
Date: January 1, 1960
Media Type: Photo
1960 UJA Overseas Report
Date: March 19, 1969
Media Type: Article
Clips from 1969 articles highlighting Max Fisher's appointment as a Special Advisor to President Nixon.
Media Type: Award
A handsome token of appreciation given to Max and Marjorie Fisher from the Jewish Federation of Detroit, of which Max Fisher was president from 1959 to 1964.
Date: December 4, 1994
Media Type: Award
Max and his wife Marjorie at the National Distinguished Leadership Award festivities.