 After new antisemitic legislation expelled Jews from the civil service and the education system ("see Romania during World War II, Holocaust in Romania"), Aderca found employment as a lecturer in aesthetics at the private Jewish school of Marcu Onescu.He, Sebastian and the other Jewish Romanian literary people and journalists were mentioned on a censorship list compiled by the Antonescu government, their works officially banned.Among those who still visited Aderca's home near the Cișmigiu Gardens was Sebastian, who also worked at the Onescu private school, and Lovinescu, before his untimely death.