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Rd.• 626-3362 Store Hours: Mon.-Weds. & Sat. 10-7; Thurs. & Fri. 10-9; Sun. 12 5 - ISSUE DATE: October 2 Display Advertising Deadline: September 25 Classified Advertising Deadline: September 25 ISSUE DATE: October 9 Display advertising Deadline: October 2 Classified Advertising Deadline: October 5, 2 p.m. Thank you for your cooperation. PLAN AHEAD! Restored Antique Doll Makes a Great Present For The Holi- days For A Parent Or Grandparent WE FIX MEMORIES! 'Certain Dolls Take Several Months To Repair Mon.-Thurs. 10-5:30, Fri. 10-8, Sat. 10-5 74 Doti dtssfre.tal & 7st, Seddies SIto 12 Nlilc Rd. • licrklc ■ 543-3115 i 9 \\ 40 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1992 The complaint against Mr. Bless was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The , department alleged that Mr. Bless, 67, a retired machin- ist, joined the Waffen SS in 1942 and served in the SS Death's Head Battalion at Auschwitz. According to the com- plaint, Mr. Bless, an ethnic German from Yugoslavia, concealed his service as an SS guard in 1956, when he entered the United States from Salzburg, Austria, and in 1964, when he applied for „ U.S. citizenship, which he was granted. The case against Mr. Szen- di, a retired 77-year-old janitor, is the first filed by the Justice Department against a Hungarian charg- ed to have been a Nazi war criminal. The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville by the depart- ment's Criminal Division and the U.S. Attorney's Of- fice for the Middle District of Tennessee. The confluence of these charges and the decision in -C_ the same court to investigate Justice Department conduct in the case of John Demjan- juk is only a coincidence, a government source said. Scholar Reveals Ethiopians' Origin AL MAN 'S EARLY DEADLINES Due to the upcoming high holidays, The Jewish News will have the following advertising deadlines: New York (JTA) — The Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations has initiated legal action to revoke the U.S. citizenship of two alleged Nazi war criminals. On Sept. 9, the department filed a complaint against Jozsef Szendi, a Hungarian emigre living in Cookeville, Tenn., who allegedly took part in the persecution of Jews and others in Budapest during World War II. Among the activities Mr. Szendi is alleged to have undertaken was a raid on a building in Budapest where Jews had been hidden under the aegis of Swedish diplo- mat Raoul Wallenberg. And on Sept. 10, the Justice Department an- nounced it had filed a com- plaint to revoke the citizen- ship of Anton Bless, a recent resident of Lecanto, Fla., who is accused of concealing his service in the SS as a Nazi concentration camp guard. But the department said it had been informed by Mr. Bless' attorney that his client had fled the country after being told the com- plaint was to be filed. The attorney said Mr. Bless does not plan to return to the United States. It was not reported where he went. Jerusalem (JTA) — Con- trary to popular belief, the Jews of Ethiopia are descen- dants neither of the exiled tribe of Dan nor of a mythical union between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, according to a new book by a Hebrew University scholar. Rather, Professor Steven Kaplan believes the Jews of Ethiopia probably had their origin in an Ethiopian eth- nic group sometime between the 14th and 16th centuries. Professor Kaplan con- siders the community in the wider context of Ethiopian history in The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twen- tieth Century, published by New York University Press. The New York-born author is chairman of the Hebrew University's department of African studies. Professor Kaplan says his purpose is not to question the Jewishness of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel, since their religious status as Jews was determined by rabbinical authorities 400 years ago. He believes Jews did in- deed come to Ethiopia from Eretz Yisrael via the Ara- bian Peninsula in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, and that they exerted a lingering cultural influence. But although traces of their cultural imprint sur- vived even after the arrival of Christianity in the fourth century C.E., they left no Jewish community as such. It is only in the Middle Ages — sometime between the 14th and 16th centuries, writes Professor Kaplan — that references arise of a separate group standing apart from other Ethiopians, whose beliefs and rituals did not contain Christian elements.