 In 1938, Șorban became a teaching assistant of art history at Cluj University.Following the Second Vienna Award which assigned Northern Transylvania to Hungary, he decided to remain in Cluj (Kolozsvár), and founded the Northern Transylvanian Romanian Publishing House ("Editura Românească din Ardealul de Nord"), the only Romanian-language publishing house in the region.At the same time, he contributed articles for the Romanian-language newspaper "Tribuna Ardealului" ("The Transylvanian Tribune").