The Thirst: A Spiritual Odyssey - Paperback

Zeitlin, Hillel: - Hillel Zeitlin (1871-1942) stood at the very centre of Jewish cultural, intellectual and spiritual life in pre-war Warsaw. Scholar, mystic, journalist, and poet, Zeitlin wrote books about Nietzsche, Spinoza, the Zohar, Hasidism, countless articles on diverse aspects of Jewish thought, and stirring poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish. One of the great spiritual figures of 20th-century Jewish letters and thought, his oeuvre lies at the heart of Neo-Hasidism.Wolski, Nathan: - Nathan Wolski is the Liberman Family Lecturer in Jewish Studies with the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University, Australia. He is the author of A Journey into the Zohar: An Introduction to the Book of Radiance (SUNY, 2010); the translator of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 10 (Stanford, 2016); with Joel Hecker, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume 12 (Stanford, 2017); and more recently, Kabbalistic Yiddish: Aaron Zeitlin's Mystical-Messianic Poetics (Cherub, 2020). Together with artist Tunni Kraus, he produced a bilingual, illustrated edition of Der Nister's short story, "Der Kadmen" (The Primordium, Panui Press, 2024).Kraus, Tunni: - Tunni Kraus is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist. Since completing his Masters in Public Art at RMIT in 2010, Kraus has continued study in the form of apprenticeships and training with master scribes of varied traditions in Australia, Asia and the Middle East, most recently focusing on the sacred, scribal practices associated with Hebrew. He has exhibited extensively in Australia and abroad, including MONA FOMA-Tasmania (2013), McClelland Sculpture Gallery-Victoria (2014), Oi!-Hong Kong (2017) and Musrara Mix-Jerusalem (2020).