2 books from Izvun, Rabbi Moshe Pedazhur. With dedication of Rabbi Haim Hirschson.

Rabbi Moshe Pedazhur was the head of the Tzfat community and first mayor of the city. 1. Chiddushei HaRacha, first second on the Bavli, by Rabbi Haim Hirschenson. HaIvri printing, Jerusalem, with dedication by the author to Rabbi Moshe Pedazhur. Stamp of the Izvun. Not bound, generally good condition. 2. Chiddushei HaRacha, second section on Masechta Horiyot Bavli and Yerushalmi, by Rabbi Haim Hirschenson, printed by HaIvri, Jerusalem. With stamp of the Izvun, Rabbi Moshe Pedazhur, good condition. Rabbi Pedazhur studied at his grandfather’s (Rav Zilberman) yeshiva, and with the Ridbaz. He was the secretary and chief assistant for his grandfather. In 1924 he initiated the paving of a road from Tzfat to Meron, which was used by those travelling to the grave of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. During the War of Independence he filled the central role of leading the Jewish community in Tzfat. After the creation of the state he was appointed mayor of Tzfat. He died in Tzfat in 1962, and was buried at the cemetery in the city. Rav Hirschenson (1857-1935) was a rabbi and thinker, one of the first thinkers of religious Zionism. One of the first among Hibat Zion, he moved to Israel from Pinsk He studied at the Lamel Jewish school, and was a founder of the Abarbnel Beit Sfarim in Jerusalem—a library that was the first iteration of the National Library. He was a member of the Agudah Safa Brurah, and the Committee for the Hebrew Language (what would later become the Academy of the Hebrew Language). Following a boycott by Charedim, he moved in 1903 to Istanbul, where he ran the Hebrew language school, called “Tiferet Zvi” named after Baron Hirch. There he prepared curricula in Hebrew in a variety of professions. The same year he was sent to the Zionist Congress in Basel as a representative of Istanbul. At the end of 1903 he moved to live in the United States, and served as a rabbi in Hoboken, NJ.