7/8/2023 0 Comments The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() They consult the rabbi’s rabbi, who maintains that a cat can’t be Jewish – but the cat, as always, knows better. 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. To his master’s consternation, the cat immediately begins to tell lies (the first being that he didn’t eat the parrot). 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. ![]() The preeminent work by one of France’s most celebrated young comics 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. ![]()
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