Moshe Sofer (II) (May 10, 1885 – June 12, 1944) (German; Moses Schreiber) was a prominent Orthodox Jewish (Charedi) Rabbi in the early 20th century.
In his adolescent years, Sofer learned at the yeshiva of Rabbi Avraham Greenberg in Késmárk, Hungary.
For a few years, Sofer engaged in business, but was ultimately appointed to preside as Dayan on the Beth Din of the Erlau Orthodox congregation.
Sofer was offered many prestigious rabbinical positions, but turned them down in order to be with his father and to invest his time in publishing the Torah commentaries of his illustrious family.
Sofer and his wife had six children; Avraham Shmuel Binyamin, Yochanan, Chava Rivka, Leah, Gitel Tobia and Reizel.
In 1944, Sofer and his family were deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis (with the exception of his son Avraham Shmuel Binyamin) together with the Jews of Erlau.
On 12 June 1944 (21 Sivan 5704), Sofer, his wife, daughters and his father Rabbi Shimon were murdered by the Nazis.
He was a presiding member of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah, and a key leader and posek of the Charedi population in Israel.
This book of responsa was published by his son, Yochanan, who added his own commentary and notations named Itur Sofrim (Ornament of the Scribes).