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Apr 14, 2021 · Joann Sfar is a French graphic novelist, director, and novelist born in Nice in 1971. Of Algerian and Ukrainian origin, part of his prolific work blends Sephardic and Ashkenazi traditions, notably in the Klezmer comic book series and The Rabbi’s Cat , adapted for film, translated into several languages and winner of the Will Eisner Prize.
Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well known for prosecuting Neo-Nazis. As a result of his mother's early death, Sfar was raised by his father and maternal grandfather, a military doctor of Ukrainian origin in the Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade (France) during World War II.
Spring 2015. O n March 19, 2012, a French jihadi on a shooting spree targeted a Jewish school in Toulouse, murdering three children and a rabbi. A few days later, a Jewish cemetery in Nice was defaced. Both events were on the mind of comic book creator Joann Sfar as he resumed work on the final book of Klezmer, a five-volume fantasy on Jewish ...
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Mar 26, 2024 · 197 likes, 0 comments - joannsfar on March 26, 2024: "Good news is: i'm here to write a horror show. @magical.society".
Nov 16, 2015 · Image by Joann Sfar /Instagram Digital Fellow Lior Zaltzman November 16, 2015 Like many artists, Joann Sfar’s way of interacting with the world and processing his reality is drawing.
Joann Sfar discusses his cinematic debut ‘Gainsbourg', which follows the life of the controversial French singer who found international fame with hit "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus".
