 He saw the works as study cases, suggesting that pacifism was a typically Jewish trait in Greater Romania, a more palatable form of "anti-national" (that is, anti-Romanian) ideologies.In Andrei Oișteanu's view, such allegations merely modernized old prejudice depicting Jews as a cowardly race.Although, at the time when Călinescu's work was first published, Aderca was already marginalized, he made a point of replying to the allegations.