Career
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 of "Song of Songs"". Zeitlin was a violinist, violist, conductor and impresario who was active in Saint St. Petersburg"s Society for Jewish Folk Music.
In 1925, he began arranging orchestral and small ensemble pieces for the Capitol"s radio program on WEAF, which in 1926 became the flagship station of the National Broadcasting Company Red Network.
Beginning in 1926, the series of light classical concerts titled Capitol Theatre was broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company Red Network on Sunday evenings from 7:20pm to 9:15pm. This series continued until 1929, not long before Zeitlin"s death.
In an article written by Pro Musica Hebraica, Zeitlin is described as "one of the most important Russian Jewish composers to resurface, after decades of neglect, as a leading figure in the history of twentieth-century Jewish art music" According to this source, all of Zeitlin"s known chamber works were included in a print volume in 2008.