Title

Description

Title page. [Image 1]

An introduction stating the purpose of the society is followed by the 18 statutes of the society and the signatures of its members agreeing to abide by the statutes. The mlotshes (usually spelled מלאטשעס) were the shamashim, i.e., junior members of the burial societies. In Ternivke, the junior members formed an independent society, with the permission of the burial society, as recorded in the first statute. [Images 2-7]

List of the shamashim, entries regarding the acceptance of new members, and appointment of officers, etc. [Images 7-11, 14-15]

An entry from 5615 (1855) regarding conflicts between the burial society and the malatshes, which escalated into physical altercations. [Image 13]

Further issues between the members of the burial society and the malatshes, and the signature of the malatshes who accepted the new conditions and agreed to new statues imposed on them by the Burial Society. [Image 17-19]

List of the officers and malatshes of the society. [Image 24-27]

The transcriber provides a physical description of the pinkas. [Image 28]

Note by the transcriber calculating the year the ledger was written. [Image 29]

A product of a cooperative agreement between the Russian National Library and Touro University’s Project Zikaron in 2019. This pinkas is part of the Günzburg Manuscript Collection at the Russian National Library in Moscow. This overview was prepared by Rabbi Yitzchok Stroh of Brooklyn, New York, in 2020.

Category

Year of Publication/Creation

1824-

Language(s)

Hebrew

Geographic Places

• Ternivka (Ternovka, Ternevke, Ternefke), Ukraine (read online)