uotables
7-le really got me into philanthropy, very, very much
so. I had the heart to do it and he pushed me all the
way. He showed me all the things that I could do. He
was very much involved. Federation was No. 1, both
in terms of involvement and donations."
— Eugene Applebaum, Bloomfield Hills
Clockwise from top:
Fisher working the phone in his Franklin home in 1990.
Fisher as a high school football player in Salem in 1923.
Max is flanked by Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
CEO Robert Aronson and a longtime friend and business
partner, A. Alfred Taubman, 1998.
President Nixon with Fisher in 1968.
Max's father William ran Fisher's Underselling Store in
Salem, Ohio, in 1919.
Acknowledgments
The JN would like to acknowledge photo and
content contributions from these sources:
"Quiet Diplomat" by Peter Golden (Cornwall
Books, 1992)
"Harmony and Dissonance" by Sidney Bolkosky
(Wayne State University Press, 1991)
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
The Fisher family archives
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