May 9, 2020, 11:30
Alliance française Ottawa
The French Book Club continues online on Zoom !
In the context of the celebration of the 9th Art, launched by the French Ministry of Culture for May 2020, we invite you to discover the 2 first volumes of the comic “Le Chat du Rabbin” by Joann Sfar, a French comics writer, illustrator, novelist and film director.
Summary : 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 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.
Contact us at media@af.ca to obtain the participation Zoom link (free event).
Comic available for free on Culturethèque : https://www.culturetheque.com/EXPLOITATION/CA/accueil-portal.aspx
