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Romanovs & the Jews

The antisemitism of the Romanovs is well known.

What’s not well known is the co-existing policy — discrimination of shtetl Jews and the increasing acceptance of cultured and educated Jews under the last Romanov, Tsar Nicholas II. Even before Nicholas II, Anton and Nikolai Rubinstein founded (respectively) the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Moscow Conservatory — Nikolai teaching the great Peter Tchaikovsky. Valentin Serov, the Romanov Portraitist, was the grandson of a rabbi. Boris Pasternak’s (author of Doctor Zhivago) father was a painter and professor at the Imperial Academy of Art and his mother, a concert pianist. Even more maligned than Nicholas II is Rasputin — a friend of the Jews — whose personal secretary was even Jewish.











When: Thu., Dec. 14, 2017 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: $45
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The antisemitism of the Romanovs is well known.

What’s not well known is the co-existing policy — discrimination of shtetl Jews and the increasing acceptance of cultured and educated Jews under the last Romanov, Tsar Nicholas II. Even before Nicholas II, Anton and Nikolai Rubinstein founded (respectively) the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Moscow Conservatory — Nikolai teaching the great Peter Tchaikovsky. Valentin Serov, the Romanov Portraitist, was the grandson of a rabbi. Boris Pasternak’s (author of Doctor Zhivago) father was a painter and professor at the Imperial Academy of Art and his mother, a concert pianist. Even more maligned than Nicholas II is Rasputin — a friend of the Jews — whose personal secretary was even Jewish.

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