Sion Segre Amar

Sion Segre Amar (Turin, May 19, 1910– ibidem, September 4, 2003) was an Italian Jewish writer who survived the holocaust when he fled to Mandatory Palestine in 1939.

He studied at the Liceo classico Massimo d'Azeglio and later natural sciences at the university. In 1934, he and other young men from Turin were stopped at the Swiss Italian border for having anti-fascist leaflets in their possession. During the fascist period, he was a member of the political party Giustizia e Libertà and in the 1960s he was the president of the Jewish Community in Turin. In the 1960s he began to buy manuscripts at Sotheby's in London, until his collection reached about 300 volumes.

In 1939, he left for Palestine (region), remaining there until the end of World War II; returning to Italy after the war, he helped reform the structures of Italian Jewry, becoming, in 1960, president of a junta of the History of the Jews in Turin.

He is credited with establishing the collection known as “Comites Latentes,” comprising more than 300 medieval manuscripts and now housed at the Bibliothèque de Genève.

Works Amico mio e non della ventura, 1990 Il logogrifo,1990 Il mio ghetto, 1996