In 1872, Schwarzfeld participated in setting up "Vocea Aparătorului" ("The Defender's Voice"), a review started on behalf of the Jews. In May 1874, he founded in Iaşi "Revista Israelitică" ("The Israelites' Review"), in which he published his first Jewish novel, "Darascha". From 1874 to 1876, Elias Schwarzfeld studied medicine at the University of Bucharest, abandoning it later to take up the study of law. In 1881, he became a Doctor of Law, the title being awarded to him by the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.