Overview
- Summary
- When the rabbi's cat wins the gift of speech by swallowing a parakeet, he uses it both to tell lies (that he didn't eat the parakeet, for example) and to tell his own story. But now that he's lied, the rabbi forbids him from talking to his daughter, Zlabya, and vows to educate him in the Torah. For his part, the cat wants to study Kabbalah and he wants a bar mitzvah. But the question of whether a feline can be Jewish must first be intensely debated by the cat and his master. When Zlabya falls in love with a dashing young rabbi, both are crestfallen and jealous, but the journey to meet the young man's secular family in Paris provides additional opportunities for the rabbi and his cat to discuss both the important and petty details of life. Vibrant with the colors, textures, and feeling of a lost world (one where Jews and Arabs easily co-existed) "The Rabbi's Cat is populated with wholly believable and endearing people and one truly unforgettable cat.
- Uniform Title
- Chat du rabbin. English
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Pantheon Books, c2005-<c2008>
- Notes
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Translated from the French.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
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- ISBN
- 0375422811
9780375422812
9780375425073
0375425071
0375714642
9780375714641 - Physical Description
- volumes <1-2> : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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- 2024-06-21 15:43:00
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