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David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) [1] is an American film producer, record executive, and media proprietor.In music, he co-founded Asylum Records (with Elliot Roberts) in 1971 before founding Geffen Records in 1980, DGC Records in 1990, and co-founding DreamWorks Records (with Mo Ostin, Michael Ostin and Lenny Waronker) in 1996.
Maxwell M. Geffen (May 28, 1896 – October 11, 1980 [1]) was an American publisher. Life and career.
Gefen Primo (born 2000), Israeli judoka; Gefen LLC, an American electronics hardware manufacturing company; Gefen Publishing House, an English language publishing firm located in Jerusalem, Israel; The Geffen Film Company, a motion picture distributor and production company founded by David Geffen; Geffen Records, a record label founded by ...
The Geffen Award (Hebrew: פרס גפן) is an annual literary award given by the Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy since 1999, and presented at the ICon festival, the annual Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, It is named in honour of editor and translator Amos Geffen, who was one of the society's founders.
Gefen was founded in 1981 by Murray and Hana Greenfield. [2] Its CEO is Ilan Greenfield, son of the founders. [3] The firm publishes approximately 40 titles per year. [4] It specializes in English-language books of Jewish and Israeli interest. [3] Their publications cover a wide variety of Israeli and Jewish subjects.
Geffen lives in Tel Aviv with her partner Aharon Meidan. Geffen has published 25 books, including children's stories, reference books and suspense novels. Her latest book "My Daughter’s Keeper" was published in 2022. Geffen is a member of the board of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel since 2015, and acting chairman of Gnazim Archive ...
The latter introduced Geffen to his future wife, Nurit Makober. Much of Geffen's success came from his works for children, including the song "HaYaldah Hachi Yafah BaGan" ("The Prettiest Girl in Kindergarten") and the poetry collection HaKeves HaShisha-Asar ("The 16th Sheep"). He also wrote many popular lyrics for adults, poems, plays and books.
Geffen stepped down as head of the label in 1995 to collaborate with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Amblin Entertainment co-founder Steven Spielberg to form DreamWorks SKG (later DreamWorks Pictures), [16] an ambitious multimedia empire dealing in film, television, books and music. Geffen Records would distribute releases on the newly-founded company's ...