It was not Rskkiya that first mentioned anti semitism. It was stated Alix was perhaps hypocritical by a poster, then another poster asked WHY?? and I thought about it and answered she was religious and yet anti semetic so therefore I considered that to be hypocritical.
Fair enough??
Alix was not raised as an anti- semite but Nicholas was.
The Romanovs were anti -semetic in general. (but obviously some were not)
And so Alix came under the influence of her husband as wives in that era tended to become more so than today.
Rasputin was not anti- semetic and Alix was under his influence and so she came to see the Jews differently especially after the outbreak of WW1.
That was when she saw them more sympathetically.
Anti - Semetism was rampant throughout the reign of Nicholas and Alix. It is not their fault, the Romanovs, Russia and Europe all suffered with this problem. Nicholas was raised in its midst.
In Nicholas day he was not considered overly anti-semetic but by todays standards he was and so is Alix. Remember we are judging them by our own modern standards of political correctness.
There were different values then.
Nobody is perfect, not even Alix. During the Japanese war Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaevna spoke badly of the Japanese and she was only a little girl very much under the influence of her mother and father.
Alix was guilty of anti semitism and racism, millions of people were. It was the times and the era they lived in.
Nobody is perfect, no need to bounce on the odd criticism of her, she had many more finer points, such as her charities and her efforts during WW1 and she taught her daughters in the end better than how Olga spoke as a small child in 1905.
Alix was just human after all and all humans make mistakes, could we say she adjusted her thinking of the Jews in later life??
