was a member of the local Algerian Jewish community. During the same May week, he was stopped with several others by a group of insurgents and stood against a wall for execution, a fate avoided by the timely intervention of the local police. From 1961 to 1963, he was a resident at the Fondation Dosne-Thiers. From 1965 to 1977 he was first assistant and then lecturer at the (Paris Institute of Political Science). Since 1977 he has been the director of studies at the (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). In 2014, Nora received the Dan David Prize for his contribution to "History and Memory." Publishing Concurrently, Nora had pursued an important career in publishing. He joined Éditions Julliard in 1964, where he created the Archives paperback collection. In 1965 he joined Éditions Gallimard: the publishing house, which already had a good market share in literature, wanted to develop its social sciences sector. It was Pierre Nora who achieved this mission by creating two important collections, the Library of social sciences in 1966 and the Library of histories in 1970, as well as the collection in 1967. At Éditions Gallimard, under Nora's direction many major works of scholarship were published that became landmarks in their respective fields. Among them figure: In the Library of social sciences, Raymond Aron (, 1967), Georges Dumézil (, 1968–1973), Marcel Gauchet (, 1985), Claude Lefort (, 1978), Henri Mendras (, 1988), Michel Foucault (Les Mots et les Choses,, 1966, and L'Archéologie du savoir, 1969). In the Library of histories, François Furet (, 1978), Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (, 1975, best sale of the collection with 145 000 copies), Michel de Certeau (, 1975), Georges Duby (, 1976), Jacques Le Goff (Saint Louis, 1997), Jean-Pierre Vernant (, 1989), Maurice Agulhon (, 1988–1996), Michel Foucault (Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1972, , 1975, and Histoire de la sexualité, 1976–1984). Foreign researchers whom he introduced in France, like Ernst Kantorowicz (, 1959, published in 1989), Thomas Nipperdey (, 1983–1992, in 1992), Karl Polanyi (, 1944, in 1983). This important role gave to Nora a certain power in French publishing and he was also the object of criticism. He declined to translate Eric Hobsbawm's work, The Age of Extremes (1994). Nora admired the book, admitted its high quality but after a long delay, turned it down, telling Hobsbawm that the high costs of translation would