Tzimmes (and don't forget the cheesecake and the strudel)

Tzimmes (and don't forget the cheesecake and the strudel) is a humorous story about Dr. Sam Landover, an unpretentious high school mathematics teacher, grounded in Jewish tradition, who despite himself gets tangled up in the middle of choosing a rabbi for Shalom Center. Improvising his way through the confusing jumble, the story becomes a mixed-up stew, like the tasty dessert called tzimmes.

Tzimmes (and don't forget the cheesecake and the strudel) is a humorous story about Dr. Sam Landover, an unpretentious high school mathematics teacher, grounded in Jewish tradition, who despite himself gets tangled up in the middle of choosing a rabbi for Shalom Center. Improvising his way through the confusing jumble, the story becomes a mixed-up stew, like the tasty dessert called tzimmes. This is a book that will interest adults and young adults who enjoy Jewish humor. It is also educational concerning many aspects of Jewish traditions.

Family traditions inspired Arthur Marshall Fell to write Tzimmes. He has worked in the family scrap business, as a waiter, in a used furniture store, in a car agency, as an agricultural worker, as a practicing lawyer in New York City, as a US Foreign Serivce Minister-Counselor and Mission Director posted in several African countries, as a radio announcer, and as a principal administator in a Paris-based international organization. He is a pianist, a composer, recipient of an ASCAP award, and he recorded a jazz album on the British label MacJazz with the trumpet player, David Cross. He co-authored a book about development in the Sahel region of Africa published by the OECD in Paris and has written numerous articles about law, economic development and music. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana and was admitted to the Bar in Indiana and New York. His life has obviously been a tzimmes, like the mixed-up dessert stew. He presently lives with his wife Teri on the southern coast of France.