<![CDATA[The Rabbi's Cat]]>

false <![CDATA[The Rabbi's Cat]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171030614m/82882.jpg 82882 3 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. 1381374 16 8 2005 The Rabbi's Cat total:520|5:178|4:239|3:90|2:10|1:3| 520 2139 674 101 4 1 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 19:18:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 00:06:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 03:40:53 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 04:11:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 10:58:44 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 21:58:15 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 07:22:54 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 07:59:30 -0700 2009 The Rabbi's Cat seems to represent a basic interpretation of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. And in others, it light-heartedly recreates the Jewish Algeria of the 1930s. The characters of The Rabbi, The Rabbi's Daughter, and The Rabbi's Cat display multi-faceted prisms of their...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 20 02:51:09 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 02:51:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 13:48:36 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 00:39:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Nov 12 15:45:42 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 16:03:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 03:54:27 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 29 04:02:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 12:21:41 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 10:29:34 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 20:47:52 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 20:52:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 00:40:24 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 11:58:06 -0700 2007 The Rabbi's Cat follows the life of a sharp but free-thinking cat his master (an Algerian rabb...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 09:22:15 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 21 09:26:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Sep 24 16:03:47 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 16:25:16 -0700 2008 2 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 22:57:29 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 21:24:33 -0700 2008 About the artwork: it was frustrating. The drawings of the cat would move from playful to realistic with no apparent t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 13 07:23:17 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 13:20:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jun 13 19:16:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 19:16:42 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 08:05:48 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 08:13:20 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 01:37:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 02:32:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 10:54:29 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 09:56:01 -0800 2008
The was story interesting and unexpected. I often found myself laughing out loud. I loved the mischievous cat and the pious rabbi. The ending, however, lef...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 27 09:28:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:30:18 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=82882