Zeitlin

Zeitlin ( yi, צייטלין) is a

matronymic A matronymic is a personal name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor. It is the female equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames. In som ...

Jewish surname Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries CE. Jews have ...

. It is derived from the female name Zeitl according to the rules of

Slavic languages The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the ...

, with the

possessive suffix In linguistics, a possessive affix (from la, affixum possessivum) is an affix (usually suffix or prefix) attached to a noun to indicate its possessor, much in the manner of possessive adjectives. Possessive affixes are found in many languages o ...

'-in' and literally means "Zeitl's". When transliterated from Yiddish to Russian to English, the surname may be spelled as follows. Male forms: Tseytlin, Tseitlin, Tsetlin, Tzeitlin. Female forms (usually only for Slavic nationals): Tseytlina, Tseitlina, Tsetlina, Tzeitlina. When transliterated via Polish, the surname may be spelled as Cejtlin, Cajtlin, Zejtlin, Zajtlin. The surname may refer to: *

Aaron Zeitlin Aaron Zeitlin (3 June 1898 – 28 September 1973) was a Jewish American educator and writer. He authored several books on Yiddish literature, poetry and parapsychology. Biography Zeitlin was born in Uvarovichi, Russia (now Belarus) to Hillel Z ...

(1889/1896/1898–1973), Russian-US Yiddish writer, composer, and poet * Alexander Zeitlin (1900–1998), Russian-American military leader * Alexandre Zeitlin (1872–1946), sculptor *

Benh Zeitlin Benjamin Harold Zeitlin (; born October 14, 1982) is an American filmmaker, best known for writing and directing the 2012 film '' Beasts of the Southern Wild'', for which he received two Academy Award nominations. Early life Zeitlin was born in ...

(born 1982), US filmmaker *

Denny Zeitlin Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the ...

(born 1938), US jazz pianist * Froma Zeitlin (born 1933), US classics scholar * Harriet Zeitlin (born 1929), American artist *

Hillel Zeitlin Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942) was a Yiddish and Hebrew writer and poet. A leading pre-Holocaust Jewish journalist, he was a regular contributor to the Yiddish newspaper ''Moment'', among other literary activities. He was the leading thinker in the ...

(1871–1942), Polish Yiddish writer *

Jacob Zeitlin Jacob Israel Zeitlin (November 4, 1902 – August 30, 1987) was an American bookseller, publisher, collector, poet and intellectual in Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century. He was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but moved with his family to Fo ...

(1902–1987), American bookseller and poet *

Joshua Zeitlin Joshua Zeitlin (1742 in Shklov, Belarus – August 18, 1822, in Kherson, Novorossiya) was a Russian rabbinical scholar and philanthropist. He was a pupil of the Talmudist Rabbi Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg who was the author of ''Sha'agat Ary ...

(1742–1822), Shklov-born Russian-Jewish rabbinical scholar and philanthropist * Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin (1823–1888), Kiev-born Russian-Jewish scholar and philanthropist * Judith T. Zeitlin, American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago * Lev Tseitlin (1881-1952), a violinist and teacher *

Leo Zeitlin Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin (russian: Лев Цейтлин, yi, לייב צייטלין "Leyb Tseytlin", born 1884, in Pinsk – July 8, 1930, in New York City), known as Leo Zeitlin, was a Russian-Jewish composer. In 1923, he emigrated to the ...

(1884–1930), a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario * Mark Tseitlin (born 1943), a Russian-Israeli chess grandmaster * Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (1924–1966), Russian mathematician and physicist *

Mikhail Tseitlin Mikhail Semyonovich Tseitlin ( be, Міхаіл Сямёнавіч Цэйтлін; german: Michael Zeitlein; born 16 June 1947, in Babruysk) is a Belarusian chess Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster, now resident in Germany. Tseitlin was twice Mosco ...

(born 1947), Belarusian chess grandmaster * Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born 1974), American musician * Michail Yulyevich Tseytlin (Михаил Ю́льевич Цейтлин), also as M. Yu. Ceitlin and M. Ju. Zeitlin, a Russian mathematician, who worked on the book ''Gradshteyn and Ryzhik'' in the 1960s and early 1970s *

Solomon Zeitlin Solomon Zeitlin, שְׁניאור זלמן צײטלין, Шломо Цейтлин ''Shlomo Cejtlin'' (''Tseitlin, Tseytlin'') (28 May 1886 or 31 May 1892, in Chashniki, Vitebsk Governorate (now in Vitebsk Region) in Russia – 28 December 1976, i ...

(1892–1976), Lithuanian-Jewish rabbi, historian *

William Zeitlin William Zeitlin (; – 1921) was a Russian scholar and bibliographer. Biography William Zeitlin was born in Homel, Mogilev Governorate, into a prominent Jewish family from Shklov. His major work was ''Kiryat Sefer'', or ''Bibliotheca Hebraica P ...

(1850–1921), Russian-Jewish scholar and bibliographer * Zvi Zeitlin (1922–2012), Russian-US violinist * Vladislav Tseytlin (born 1971) is a Uzbekistani football FIFA referee {{surname, Zeitlin, Zaitlin, Tseytlin, Cejtlin, Tseitlin, Cajtlin, Tsetlin, etc. Jewish surnames Polish-language surnames Russian-language surnames Matronymic surnames