[Avodah] The Hallel Recitation in the Synagogue on the First Night of Pesach

[Prof. Levine]

 From 
http://www.stevens.edu/golem/llevine/rsrh/shorshei_hallel_pesach_night.pdf

Masekhet Soferim, which was composed during the early Ge'onic period,
records a custom to recite an additional hallel in the synagogue on the
night of Pesach, with a berakha. Some later writers claimed that this
recitation actually took place on the afternoon of Erev Pesach and served
to commemorate the hallel that was recited during the slaughtering of the
korban pesach. Most commentators, however, accept the straightforward
reading, that Masekhet Soferim refers to a synagogue reading held on the
night of Pesach.

The Ge'onim rejected this custom recorded in Masekhet Soferim, and
indeed, for many generations, Jews throughout Europe, Africa and Asia
did not conduct a synagogue hallel reading on the night of Pesach.
Numerous arguments were raised against this custom.

Please see the above URL for the rest of this article on this 
topic.  This article is from the Sefer Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz, 
Synopsis of Volumes I - IV in English.  YL
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