Lobbyists tried unsuccessfully to get La Mort aux Juifs renamed twenty years ago A prominent Jewish group, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, has asked the French government to rename a small village in central France that is currently called 'Death to Jews' ('La Mort aux Juifs'). The centre's director wrote to France's interior minister to request the removal of "this genocidal name". In his letter, Sh
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