 For a while, he was tasked with the magazine's literary column, and, in this context, began a publicized polemic with the traditionalist critic (and fellow emancipated Jew) Ion Trivale.Other texts he authored were published in "Versuri și Proză", a periodical issued in Iași city, one most often associated with the last wave of Romanian Symbolism.Having witnessed the outbreak of World War I even before Romania joined in, Aderca recorded his experience in the 1915 volume "Sânge închegat... note de război" ("Dried Blood... Notes from the War").