“The Late Rabbi Israel Joshua of Kutna.” Full-length portrait with biographical Hebrew text below.

Rabbi Yisroel Yehoshua Tronk (1820-93) was author of Yeshuath Yisrael on Choshen Mishpat, Yavin Da’ath on Yoreh Deah, and Yeshuath Malko on the Rambam. He was well-known for his love and esteem for Eretz Israel and along with Rabbis Samuel Mohilewer and Isaac Elchanan Spector, was one of the signers of the Heter Mechira which allowed for the selling the Land of Israel to a gentile for the duration of the sabbatical year in 1889.