Pinkas Chevrah Tehillim.

A society record-book from a small Jewish community named Rudnia, located between Vitebsk and Smolensk. Rudnia was primarily a Chabad-oriented community, a fact well reflected here by the names contained in this Pinkas including a great many “Shneur Zalmans.” In later years, family surnames were recorded, including: Berlin, Cunin, Sternin, Lapkin, Chavkin, Rizikov, Sokolov, Zeitlin, Zilberbord and others. The volume includes the rules and regulations of this select group committed to the recitation of Psalms every Sabbath. Noted are names of various officers as well as financial accounts, including membership fees, donations for aliyoth, contributions of whiskey, as well as names of officers and auditors. On Yud Teth Kislev, 1857 the Dayan Avraham b. Gershon Halevi Ashkenazi became a member. The Dayan signed a resolution in the name of the members that funds are to be set aside to purchase a set of the Talmud issued in Zhitomir. Also contains a list of member seat-holders in the newly built synagogue.