Zeitlin ( yi, צייטלין) is a
matronymic Jewish surname. 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 Ear ...
, with the
possessive suffix '-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:
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Aaron Zeitlin (1889/1896/1898–1973), Russian-US Yiddish writer, composer, and poet
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Alexander Zeitlin (1900–1998), Russian-American military leader
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Alexandre Zeitlin (1872–1946), sculptor
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Benh Zeitlin (born 1982), US filmmaker
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Denny Zeitlin (born 1938), US jazz pianist
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Froma Zeitlin
Froma I. Zeitlin is an American Classics scholar. She specializes in ancient Greek literature, with particular interests in epic, drama and prose fiction, along with work in gender criticism, and the relationship between art and text in the cont ...
(born 1933), US classics scholar
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Harriet Zeitlin (born 1929), American artist
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Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), Polish Yiddish writer
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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
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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 Aryeh ...
(1742–1822), Shklov-born Russian-Jewish rabbinical scholar and philanthropist
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Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin (October 10, 1823, in Kiev – January 11, 1888, in Dresden), was a Jewish and Russian scholar and philanthropist.
While he was still young his parents removed to Chernobyl, where he associated with the Chasidim, later ...
(1823–1888), Kiev-born Russian-Jewish scholar and philanthropist
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Judith T. Zeitlin, American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago
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Lev Tseitlin
Lev Tseitlin (Russian: ''Лев Моисеевич Цейтлин''), (15 March 1881, Tbilisi - 9 January 1952, Moscow) was a violinist and a professor.
Biography
Tseitlin started to study violin in Tbilisi under Evgeny Kolchin. In 1901 he gradua ...
(1881-1952), a violinist and teacher
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Leo Zeitlin (1884–1930), a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario
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Mark Tseitlin
Mark Tseitlin ( he, מארק צייטלין; russian: Марк Данилович Цейтлин, translit=Mark Danilovich Tseitlin; 23 September 1943 – 25 January 2022) was a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of Inte ...
(born 1943), a Russian-Israeli chess grandmaster
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Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (the surname is also written Cetlin, Tzetlin, Zeitlin, Zetlin; cyrillic: Михаил Львович Цетлин) (22 September 1924 – 30 May 1966) was a Soviet mathematician and physicist who worked on cybernetics. He i ...
(1924–1966), Russian mathematician and physicist
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Mikhail Tseitlin (born 1947), Belarusian chess grandmaster
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Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born 1974), American musician
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Michail Yulyevich Tseytlin
''Gradshteyn and Ryzhik'' (''GR'') is the informal name of a comprehensive table of integrals originally compiled by the Russian mathematicians I. S. Gradshteyn and I. M. Ryzhik. Its full title today is ''Table of Integrals, Series, and Product ...
(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
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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, in ...
(1892–1976), Lithuanian-Jewish rabbi, historian
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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
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Zvi Zeitlin
Zvi Zeitlin (21 February 19222 May 2012) was a Russian-born American classical violinist and teacher.
Born in Dubroŭna (now in Belarus), the son of Jewish parents: a doctor and amateur violinist, Zeitlin won a scholarship at the age of 11 to th ...
(1922–2012), Russian-US violinist
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Vladislav Tseytlin
Vladislav Tseytlin (born 23 August 1971) is an Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Респу ...
(born 1971) is a Uzbekistani football FIFA referee
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