The Rabbis Cat

The preeminent work by one of France s most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbi s Cat tells the wholly unique story of a rabbi, his daughter, and their talking cat a philosopher brimming with scathing humor and surprising tenderness.In Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak To his master s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies the first being that he didn t eat the parrot The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah They consult the rabbi s rabbi, who maintains that a cat can t be Jewish but the cat, as always, knows better.Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi from Paris, and soon master and cat, having overcome their shared self pity and jealousy, are accompanying the newlyweds to France to meet Zlabya s cosmopolitan in laws Full of drama and adventure, their trip invites countless opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to grapple with all the important and trivial details of life.Rich with the colors, textures, and flavors of Algeria s Jewish community, The Rabbi s Cat brings a lost world vibrantly to life a time and place where Jews and Arabs coexisted and peoples it with endearing and thoroughly human characters, and one truly unforgettable cat. Download The Rabbis Cat – kino-fada.fr The good news is the cat can speak The bad news is he only tells lies Well, the second part is wrong, but he is one argumentative puss He argues theology with the rabbi, and makes fun of the man s students, going so far as to follow one young man to see if he frequents a whorehouse.Cat and rabbi make a great comic duo Observe this exchange where cat is reading aloud to the rabbi CatBecause if you want I can look for a fable with only kosher animals RabbiAh Shut up and read Cat The good news is the cat can speak The bad news is he only tells lies Well, the second part is wrong, but he is one argumentative puss He argues theology with the rabbi, and makes fun of the man s students, going so far as to follow one young man to see if he frequents a whorehouse.Cat and rabbi make a great comic duo Observe this exchange where cat is reading aloud to the rabbi CatBecause if you want I can look for a fable with only kosher animals RabbiAh Shut up and read CatDo you want me to shut up or...This has been on my wishlist for ages because the promise of representing practicing Jewish characters in the graphic novel format by an ownvoices author sounded just like my kind of thing.Set in Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak To his master s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies the first being that he didn t eat the parrot The rabbi vows to educate him This has been on my wishlist for ages because the promise of representing practicing Jewish characters in the graphic novel format by an ownvoices author sounded just like my kind of thing.Set in Algeria in the 1930s, a cat belonging to a widowed rabbi and his beautiful daughter, Zlabya, eats the family parrot and gains the ability to speak To his master s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies the first being that he didn t eat the parrot The rabbi vows to educate him in the ways of the Torah, while the cat insists on studying the kabbalah and having a Bar Mitzvah They consult the rabbi s rabbi, who maintains that a cat can t be Jewish but the cat, as always, knows better.Zlabya falls in love with a dash...Sfar Rabbis Daughter Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia Rabbi s Cat, by French artist and writer Joann Sfar is a graphic novel set in Algeria in the 1930s.Despite how his name sounds in English, the author isn t a woman It s Joann as in Johann John Here he is with the model for his fictional cat Approaching this review, all I could think of at first was cat puns The Cat cher in the Rye The cat without which there is nothing A feline of v Sfar Rabbis Daughter Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia Rabbi s Cat, by French artist and writer Joann Sfar is a graphic novel set in Algeria in the 1930s.Despite how his name sounds in English, the author isn t a woman It s Joann as in Johann John Here he is with the model for his fictional cat Approaching this review, all I could think of at first was cat puns The Cat cher in the Rye The cat without which there is nothing A feline of valor although this is a male cat, an un neutered male cat Cat thee behind me And, of course, the cat s pajamas.First thing, the cat gets his tongue he becomes able to speak Next thing you know, he s demanding a bar mitzvah, then to study Kabbalah, and the ensuing theological consternation leads to the first adventure or maybe it s the second already The cat is rebellious He s a handful But so are the people All are very very human, meaning contradictory, struggling, caring, and loving beings, unpredictably tangled up with each others fates.The cat can t understand why anyone would be a rabbi...One of the most beautiful comics I ve ever read And one of the smartest books I ve encountered.I was really sad when I finished it And I really hope I could find the second volume in English.The children are all very loving They succeed in everything they do, they bring me great satisfaction Baruch HaShem Bless you Ah, I love me a classic Jewish gag like that Le Chat du Rabbin is a clever and very charming BD about Algiers s Jewish community in the 1930s, narrated by the titular feline, who...This is an American compliation and translation of three related French graphic novel tales about the life of a Sephardic Algerian rabbi s cat in colonial Algeria round about the 1930s The first of the three stories was my favorite, as the cat gains the power of speech after devouring a pet parrot and proceeds to argue theology and philosophy, requesting a Bar Mitzvah while also questioning the existence of God The second story is an adaption of a classic French fable by Fontaine and includes This is an American compliation and translation of three related French graphic novel tales about the life of a Sephardic Algerian rabbi s cat in colonial Algeria round about the 1930s The first of the three stories was my favorite, as the cat gains the power of speech after devouring a pet parrot and proceeds to argue theology and philosophy, requesting a Bar Mitzvah while also questioning the existence of God The second story is an adaption of a classic French fable by Fontaine and includes a romance for the cat s mistress, the rabbi s daughter, as well as a visit from a lion and a trip to a gravesite with a Sufi mystic In the third and final story, the rabbi and the cat join the daughter and her rich husband on a honeymoon trip to Paris The cat is a wo...A widowed rabbi, his cat and his daughter live in Algeria spin a story and lesson in Judaism very cleverly crafted in this graphic novel Through the cat, who having eaten the family parrot, is imparted a miraculous ability to speak, questions and challenges to the Jewish faith are presented to the rabbi and the rabbi s rabbi First the cat lies about eating the parrot, and then he insists on learning the Kabbalah and wants a Bar Mitzvah The rabbi s daughter gets married to a...This is the third or fourth Sfar book I ve read and I loved every panel and every word of it LOVED it He really uses his quirky sense of humor to very human effect here, whereas in Vampire in Love or The Professor s Daughter things were a ...Using the premise of What if my cat could observe humanity with an intelligent, humanlike brain What, then, would he think of Judaism, belief, Jewish law and practice, the interaction of Jews and Arabs, of men and women, and people in general , the author shows us several events from the life of a family of Sephardic Jews in historical French Northern Africa It s half story, half philosophy which is a very Jewish way to tell a story and sometimes the point is to show both sides of an a Using the premise of What if my cat could observe humanity with an intelligent, humanlike brain What, then, would he think of Judaism, belief, Jewish law and practice, the interaction of Jews and Arabs, of men and women, and people in general , the author shows us several events from the life of a family of Sephardic Jews in historical French Northern Africa It s half story, half philosophy which is a very Jewish way to tell a story and sometimes the point is to show both sides of an argument by depicting a disagreement between the cat and the rabbi, or betwee...Joann Sfar s writing is so human it is absolutely mesmerizing Every character is successfully fleshed out and everyone is frolicking and cavorting with each other on the pages Sfar builds a world where individuals are solitary by means of their relationships, so we learn how, even within a family, the idea of unity iscomplex than certain Our main character, the rabbi, master of our cat narrator, is a pious, and at times childish, buffoon We learn to love him and and pity him and relate Joann Sfar s writing is so human it is absolutely mesmerizing Every character is successfully fleshed out and everyone is frolicking and cavorting with each ot...

• English
• 08 September 2017
Joann Sfar
• Hardcover
• 152 pages
• 0375422811
• Joann Sfar
• The Rabbis Cat