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Le Monde
Le Monde
3 May 2025


For Jewish cartoonist Joann Sfar, insouciance ended on October 7

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Published yesterday at 8:30 pm (Paris)

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"The Nazis forced us to wear the star, we're not going to put it back on voluntarily." For 40 years, French cartoonist Joann Sfar obeyed his father's command: no Magen David, the six-pointed star emblematic of Judaism. He had requested it as a pendant for his bar mitzvah but André Sfar had refused to give it to him. As an adult, Sfar wears rings, large silver rings featuring the chimeras of heroic fantasy: a lion, a wolf, a boar.

He waited until he turned 53, in 2024, to return to the adolescent desires he had when he was 13 and finally say "screw you" to the Nazis: Since his last birthday, he has worn a massive Magen David of about 5 centimeters in diameter, in white gold and rubies.

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