Word: matzah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes, and told me to put my suitcase on the table-top directly in front of him. I opened it, and he began removing items at a very slow pace, lingering over some of his finds such as the kosher bubble-gum cigarettes, an art book, music tapes, and matzah...
...discovered the matzah, and soon after, a book on Jewish mysticism, he began muttering, "ah, Jewish, Jewish, Jewish" repeatedly--both to me and to my suitcase. After making a neat stack on the table of the books and tapes, he opened my duffle-bag and repeated the same procedure. The process continued as he attacked my two carry-on pieces. He found a prayer-book in Hebrew, my address book and some letters my mother had written me. The same litany, "Jewish, Jewish, Jewish," began again as he flipped through the prayer-book, and as he opened and skimmed...