Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were introduced from 1938, he was able to graduate in 1939, writing a thesis on the nineteenth-century writer, journalist, radical and lexicographer Niccolò Tommaseo.
Упркос антисемитским законима донешеним 1938, успео је да дипломира 1939, написавши тезу о деветнаестовековном писцу, новинару и лексикографу Николу Томасеу.