About

• The story
• Albums
  • The Bar-Mitzvah
  • Malka of the Lions
  • Exodus
  • Heaven on Earth
  • Africa's Jerusalem
  • You shall have no other gods before me
  • The Bar-Mitzvah (Limited Edition)
  • The Bar-Mitzvah (10 years Poisson Pilote edition)
  • The Bar-Mitzvah (Télérama BD)
  • Africa's Jerusalem (Limited Edition)
  • The complete collection, first volume
  • The complete collection Albums 1-5
  • The Art of The Rabbi's Cat
• Characters
  • Abraham Sfar, the rabbi
  • Armand
  • Birkat Hacohanim
  • Father Lambert
  • Jules
  • Knidelette
  • Raymond's girlfriend
  • Sheik Mohammed Sfar
  • Sheik's Donkey
  • The Malka's wife
  • The Rabbi's Cat
  • The impresario
  • The russian painter's girlfriend
  • Zlabya
• Foreign editions

The Rabbi's Cat > About > The story

The story

The Rabbi's Cat is the story of a speaking cat living in Alger in the beginning of 20^th century. He can speak since he ate the house parrot.

Rabbi forbid then him to see his daughter Zlabya because the cat tells only lies or hurtful truths. In order to see again his mistress the rabbi's cat asks then to do his Bar Mitzvah.

Through all the albums, the cat will loose and find back his ability to speak. Sometime he will be only able to speak with other animals or just few people like the russian painter.

He is the narrator of the story. With him, we discover Algerian Jewish culture. He observes with lot of criticism behavior of humans surrounding him. He will travel to Paris for meeting Jules (Zlabya husband) parents, or through Africa for finding Jerusalem of Africa.

This comic is a wonderful tale that help us to discover Sephardi Jews culture.