Zeitlin

Zeitlin () is a

matronymic A matronymic is a personal name or a parental 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 patrony ...

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. 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 Slavs, Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic language, Proto- ...

, with the

possessive suffix In linguistics, a possessive affix (from ) 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 of the world. The '' Wor ...

'-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 (1889/1896/1898–1973), Russian-US Yiddish writer, composer, and poet * Alexandre Zeitlin (1872–1946), sculptor *

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

(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 an Ashkenazi Yiddish language, Yiddish and Hebrew language, Hebrew writer and poet. A leading pre-Holocaust Jewish journalist, he was a regular contributor to the Yiddish newspaper ''Moment'', among other literary ...

(1871–1942), Polish Yiddish writer * Jacob Zeitlin (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 ...

(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 Judith T. Zeitlin (b. 1958; Chinese: 蔡九迪) is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

, American-Jewish scholar of Chinese literature, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago *

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 *

Leo Zeitlin Lev Mordukhovich Tseitlin (, "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 United States. His best-known work is ''Eli Zion'', a par ...

(1884–1930), a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario * Mark Tseitlin (1943–2022), a Russian-Israeli chess grandmaster *

Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin Michael Lvovitch Tsetlin (also transliterated as Cetlin, Tzetlin, Zeitlin, or Zetlin; Cyrillic: Михаил Львович Цетлин) (22 September 1924 – 30 May 1966) was a Soviet mathematician, physicist, engineer, and inventor, noted fo ...

(1924–1966), Russian mathematician and physicist * Mikhail Tseitlin (born 1947), Belarusian chess grandmaster * Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn (born 1974), American musician *

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 Products ...

(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 (28 May 1886 or 31 May 1892 – 28 December 1976) was an American Jewish historian, Talmudic scholar and in his time the world's leading authority on the Second Commonwealth, also known as the Second Temple period. His work ''Th ...

(1892–1976), American Jewish historian *

William Zeitlin William Zeitlin (; – 1921) was a Russian scholar and bibliographer. Biography William Zeitlin was born in Gomel, 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 * Arkady Tseytlin (born 1956), Russian-British theoretical physicist * Vladislav Tseytlin (born 1971), Uzbekistani football FIFA referee * Anna Tseytlin (born 1976), of Jewish and Ukrainian descent. Active American Immigration Attorney {{surname, Zeitlin, Zaitlin, Tseytlin, Cejtlin, Tseitlin, Cajtlin, Tsetlin, etc. Jewish matronymic surnames Russian-language surnames