Likutei ha-Selichoth ke-Minhag ha-Aschkenazim…be-Yom ha-Kipurim [Select Penitential Prayers for Yom Kippur According to the Aschkenazi rite]. Written by Hillel Segrè

(LITURGY)

Chieri

25th August 1859

Title in blue and black ink within decorative ruled border. Manuscript in square Italian Hebrew script provided with nikud (vowel points). Colophon reads: ”25 Ago 1859”

Members of the Segrè Family are mentioned in documentation in Chieri from the mid-16th century onward. They remained the most prominent Jewish family in this small Piedmontese town for centuries, producing several distinguished rabbis. The Jewish community of Chieri numbered no more than 150 members by the mid-19th century, and sometime in the twentieth century ceased to exist altogether. See EJ, Vol. V, col. 422; Vol. XIV, col. 1112