 Urechia was especially adverse to Şăineanu's study on the traditional references to Jews as "Tatars" and "Uriaşi", as a reference to an Early Medieval presence of Khazars in present-day Romanian territories.He therefore publicly accused Şăineanu of making it seem that the Jews had a historical precedent over Romanians.Literary critic Laszlo Alexandru writes that Urechia's reading of the text was "in bad faith", and his conclusions "slanderous".