Jacob Israel Zeitlin

Background

Zeitlin, Jacob Israel was born on November 4, 1902 in Racine, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Yehuda Louis and Bessie Fanny (Hurwitz) Zeitlin.

Education

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Occidental University. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Occidental University, 1981.

Career

Foreign many years, Zeitlin lived in the Echo Park area of Los 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 Louisiana Cienega Boulevard. During his sixty years as a rare book seller, he and his many friends and associates, known as the "Zeitlin circle," was a significant force in the cultural and intellectual life of Los Los Angeles

In 1963, he testified in a California Supreme Court obscenity hearing on Henry Miller"s novel Tropic of Cancer.

Zeitlin was one of the first people to exhibit the woodcuts of fellow Echo Park resident Paul Landacre and the photographs of Edward Weston, as well as the first in America to exhibit the work of German artist Käthe Kollwitz. Zeitlin was also a poet and the editor of Opinion, a short-lived but influential Angeleno intellectual journal.

A liberal in politics, Zeitlin was the campaign manager for Helen Gahagan Douglas" Senatoral campaign.

Achievements

• Jacob Israel Zeitlin has been listed as a noteworthy rare book dealer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of American Antiquarian Booksellers Association, American Antiquarian Society, Association Internal du Bibliophile (honorary), Century Club, Zamorano Club, Grolier Club.

Connections

Married Edith Matheral Zeitlin, 1925 (divorced 1929). 1 child Judith Louah. Married Jean Weyl Zeitlin, 1931 (divorced 1938).

1 child David John; Married Josephine Adriana Ver Brugge Zeitlin, October 29, 1939. Children: Joel, Adriana.

Father:

Yehuda Louis Zeitlin

Mother:

Bessie Fanny (Hurwitz) Zeitlin

Spouse:

Edith Matheral Zeitlin

Spouse:

Josephine Adriana Ver Brugge Zeitlin

Spouse:

Jean Weyl Zeitlin

child:

Adriana Zeitlin

child:

Joel Zeitlin

child:

Judith Louah Zeitlin

child:

David John Zeitlin