Bidspirit auction | Handwritten signature of the Gaon

Handwritten signature of the Gaon “Matir Agunot” Rabbi Yisrael Welz, Av Beit Din of Budapest. Jerusalem 1953. - Signature of Rabbi Yisrale Welz on an ishur ravakut for Rabbi Gavriel Klein. Duplicate paper. 15x20cm. Filing holes, staple at the top of the page, good condition. Rabbi Yisrael Welz (1887-1974) was a student of the Shevet Sofer in Pressburg, Ra’avad in Budapest until the Shoah, and then a teacher in Jerusalem. He was a leader of the Otzer HaPoskim, author of the Shut Divrei Yisrael (3 sections), and was known as one of the most famous matir agunot after the Shoah.