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Zeitlin
Zeitlin ( yi, צייטלין) is a matronymic Jewish surname. It is derived from the female name Zeitl according to the rules of Slavic languages, 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: * Aaron Zeitlin (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 (born 1982), US filmmaker * Denny Zeitlin (born 1938), US jazz pianist * Froma Zeitlin (born 1933), US classics scholar * Harriet Zeitlin (born 1929), American artist * Hillel Zeitlin (1871–1942), Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ''DownBeat'' International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974. He composed the soundtrack for the 1978 science-fiction horror film ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers''. Early life Zeitlin was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. He began improvising on the piano at the age of two. His father was a radiologist who played piano by ear. His mother was a speech pathologist and his first piano teacher. He began formal study in classical music at the age of six, switching to jazz in the eighth grade. In high school, he played professionally in and around Chicago, and by college at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, was playing with Ira Sullivan, Johnny Griffin, Wes Montgomery, Joe Farrell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Manhattan and raised in Sunnyside, Queens, New York, and in suburban Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. He is a graduate of Hastings High School and Wesleyan University. He was born to writers and folklorists Mary Amanda Dargan and Steven Joel Zeitlin, who founded the NYC non-profit cultural organization City Lore. His father, who is Jewish, spent most of his childhood in Brazil; whereas his mother comes from a rural, Protestant background in Darlington, South Carolina. His younger sister is screenwriter and artist Eliza Zeitlin. Career In 2004, Zeitlin co-founded the Court 13 independent collection of filmmakers, named after a neglected Wesleyan University squash court that he and his friends had once commandeered as a filming location. His younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 context of the visual culture of antiquity. Zeitlin's work on establishing new approaches to Greek tragedy has been considered particularly influential. Career Froma Zeitlin was born in New York, and grew up on the Upper West Side, where she was educated in a public girls' high school. In 1951 she began her studies at Radcliffe College (B.A. 1954) and at the Catholic University of America (M.A. 1965). After a nine-year break, she returned to graduate school, and was awarded her PhD by Columbia University in 1970. Her thesis was entitled ''The Ritual World of Greek Tragedy''. During the final year of writing her dissertation, she started her first job at Brooklyn College. From 1970 to 1976 she was an assistant professor at Rutgers University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 movement of pre-World War II "philosophical Neo-Hasidism".Green, Arthur; Mayse, Ariel Evan (March 8, 2016).'The Great Call of the Hour': Hillel Zeitlin's Yiddish Writings on ''Yavneh''. ''In Geveb''. Retrieved 2019-11-10. Biography He was born in the Mogilev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Gomel Region of Belarus) to a Chassidic Chabad family. Already in his childhood, he was recognized for his particularly sharp and analytical mind. When Zeitlin turned 15, his father died and he decided to become a Hebrew teacher. His exit from the world of the Yeshiva exposed him to the works of the scholars of the Enlightenment. He began studying in earnest the works of both Jewish philosophers (Maimonides, Gersonides, Spinoza etc.) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Zeitlin and Esther Kunin. He spent his formative years in Gomel and Vilna. In 1920, he and his brother Elchanan traveled to Palestine, and in 1921 they returned to Eastern Europe, settling in Warsaw. Zeitlin's literary abilities were apparent already in his youth when he contributed some articles to the Odessa-based children's journal ''Perachim'' and '' Hashachar''. His first publication was a fictional piece that appeared in the journal '' Di yidishe velt'' (די ייִדישע װעלט "The Jewish World"), in 1914. His first published books of Yiddish poetry were ''Matatron'' (1922) and ''Shotns oyfn shney'' (Shadows on Snow; 1923)."Zeitlin, Aaron." ''Encyclopaedia Judaica''. 2nd ed. Edited by Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. Macmillan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 United States. His best-known work is ''Eli Zion'', a paraphrase for piano and cello "on a folk theme and trope Trope or tropes may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Trope (cinema), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept * Trope (literature), a figure of speech or common literary device * Trope (music), any of a variety of different things ... of 'Song of Songs'". Life Zeitlin was a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario who was active in Saint Petersburg's Society for Jewish Folk Music. In 1923, shortly after he arrived in New York City with his wife Esther from the Free City of Danzig, he became the violist and arranger for the Capitol Theatre (New York City), Capitol Theatre. In 1925, he began arranging orche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the Juilliard School of Music in New York, the youngest scholarship student in the institution's history. He subsequently read Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served in the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1946. Following World War II, he returned to Juilliard for additional studies, with such teachers as Sascha Jacobsen, Louis Persinger, and Ivan Galamian. The composers Gunther Schuller, Paul Ben-Haim and Carlos Surinach composed violin concertos for Zeitlin, who premiered them. Zeitlin was the first to record George Rochberg's Caprice Variations in their entirety. He was also a particular champion of the violin concerto of Arnold Schoenberg and recorded this work commercially for Deutsche Grammophon. Zeitlin ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Zeitlin
Alexandre Zeitlin (1872–1946) was a sculptor known for his portrait busts. Life and career Alexandre Zeitlin was born in Tiflis, Georgia, Russia, in 1872. He held his first art exhibition in his hometown as an early teenager. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1890–1894), where his portrait busts of actor and Archduke Otto were recognized. He then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris. Zeitlin's statue ''Despair'' and a portrait bust of opera singer Jeanne Hatto were among his first to receive public recognition. He became known for his portrait busts. Zeitlin received a Ordre des Palmes académiques (1903) for busts of Camille Flammarion and was made an officer of public instruction (1907) for his statue of senator . Zeitlin worked in Paris for over 20 years. In 1915, Zeitlin moved to New York City, where he remained for the rest of his life. He died in Knickerbocker Hospital on March 4, 1946. Zeitlin had a wife, Sofie. One of his two brothers, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Fort Worth, Texas in his childhood and to Los Angeles in 1925. For many years, Zeitlin lived in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. He opened his first bookshop in 1928, on Hope Street near 6th Street in downtown Los Angeles, and over the years moved his shop a number of times, its final location being in a converted barn on La Cienega Boulevard. He founded the Primavera Press, to produce fine printed books, and was a co-founder of the Rounce & Coffin Club,Starr, 308-316 which supported and encouraged fine printing in Southern California for many years. During his sixty years as a rare book seller, he, along with his many friends and associates, known as the "Zeitlin circle," was a significant force in the cultural and intellectual life of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Post-Mendelssohniana'' (Leipzig, 1891–95), a bibliographical dictionary of Hebrew literature of the Haskalah from the beginning of Moses Mendelssohn's epoch until 1890. It indexes not only works in book form, but also important periodical articles, biographical sketches, and scientific essays, in addition to giving biographical notes on several authors. The compilation of this work occupied Zeitlin for twenty years. He made extensive use of Isaac Benjacob's ''Otzar ha-Sefarim'' and of Julius Fürst's ''Bibliotheca Judaica'', and visited Vilna and Warsaw, the centres of the Hebrew book market, as well as many university cities—such as Königsberg, Berlin, Geneva, and Paris—from the libraries of which he gathered additional material for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the United States) was a 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 ''The Rise and Fall of the Judean State'' is about the Second Temple period. Biography Russia Born in Chasniki, Russia, he attended the Gymnasium and later the Academy of Baron Günzburg. There he met and formed a lifelong friendship with Zalman Shazar. In 1904, while in Russia, he obtained Semikhah.Solomon Zeitlin (May 28, 1886 – December 28, 1976) by David Weiss Halivni and Sidney B. Hoenig; Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research Paris and USA In Paris in 1916 he was awarded a Th.D. from the École Rabbinique and an Élève Titulaire de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Zeitlin
Alexander Zeitlin (28 August 1900, in Russia – 19 April 1998) was a Russian-American military leader. He was prominent in the United States Air Force major hydraulic press design program following the Second World War and Korean War years. He and his colleagues worked on "The Heavy Press Program of the United States Air Force." that began in earnest in 1950. Career Heavy Press Program The Heavy (Forging) Press Program were installed at Alcoa Cleveland, Ohio and Wyman Gordon, North Grafton, Massachusetts. The two Forging Press manufacturers were Loewy Hydropress Inc. (Loewy) and Mesta Machine of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At Loewy, Zeitlin was involved in the design and construction of the 35,000 ton press code-named "Minor" and the 50,000 ton code-named "Major" forging presses. For strategic reasons, two other "Minor" and "Major" forging presses and were built by Mesta Machine and were commissioned at Alcoa Cleveland, Ohio, during the same time period. Both had a 50,000-ton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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