In interviews published after the fall of Communist Party rule in 1989, Șora said that he was unofficially "arrested".

[1] He was barred from holding a teaching appointment in Communist Romania, but nevertheless became an influential editor for one of the main Romanian publishers, ESPLA.

[4] In March 1989, he joined intellectuals protesting the treatment of dissident poet Mircea Dinescu.

After the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu in December 1989, he briefly served as minister of education in Petre Roman's post-revolutionary coalition.

Șora was born in Ianova, Timiș County, the son of an Orthodox priest.