Two long letters of responsa:
· Autograph [3] page letter, signed by R. Moshe Sofer, "Moshe Sofer son of R. S.S.", sent to R. Chaim Zvi Glazer (who was at that time in Miskolc). Erlau, 1917. A halachic question is mentioned in the letter sent by his relative Rabbi A. C. D. Sofer [R. Avraham Chaim David Sofer (1888-1937), son of R. Yitzchak Leib Sofer, author of Sofer Mahir and his successor as director of the Kupat Eretz HaKodesh Kollel Galicia].
· Autograph [4] page letter, signed by R. Chaim Zvi Glazer Ra'avad of Przemyśl, sent to R. Moshe Sofer of Erlau.
R. Moshe Sofer, author of Yad Sofer (1888-1944), eldest son of R. Shimon Sofer, author of Hitorerut Teshuva (1850-1944), grandson of the author of the Ktav Sofer. Son-in-law of R. Moshe Yochanan Shenfeld Rabbi of Valea lui Mihai (Mihaifalău). From 1915, he served as dayan and Moreh Tzedek of Erlau, alongside his elder father who served as Rabbi of Erlau for over 60 years and piloted all rabbinical matters in the city and country. He was known as an outstanding Torah sage and exchanged halachic correspondence with leading poskim and Torah scholars of his times (from Hungary, Galicia, Lithuania and Poland). He was murdered in Auschwitz together with his father who was 95 year old. His son R. Yochanan Sofer, the Erlau Rebbe (1923-2016), was rescued from the Holocaust and established the Ohel Shimon-Erlau Yeshiva and was the founder of the Erlau community which was one of the largest Chassidic communities established in Eretz Israel after the Holocaust.
R. Chaim Zvi Hirsh Glazer (1866-1939), son-in-law of R. Moshe Meislish of Przemyśl, author of K'lil Tiferet (1845-1925), was a dayan in Przemyśl from 1911 and from 1925 served as Ra'avad of Przemyśl. He was a Belzer Chassid and an exceptional Torah scholar, erudite in the entire Talmud and poskim. He was murdered by the Nazis in the month of Tishrei 1939 (see the introduction to the Abir Ya'akov responsa, Vol. 1, by R. Ya'akov Avigdor, p. [7]). See more about him, M. Wunder, Me'orei Galicia, Vol. 6, p. 343.
2 letters, size and condition vary. Very-good to good-fair condition.
The responsum of R. Moshe Sofer was printed in his book Yad Sofer (Vol. 2, Siman 52), and the responsum of R. Chaim Zvi Glazer was printed in the HaOhel anthology (Year 1, issue 4, Elul 1956, pp. 153-154).