Avi (Avraham) Sasson (Hebrew: אבי (אברהם) ששון) is an Israeli academic who serves as endowed chair of the Israel Studies Department at Ashkelon Academic College, Israel.[1][2]
Avi (Avraham) Sasson | |
|---|---|
אבי (אברהם) ששון | |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Known for | Survey of Palestinian orchard houses, Historic preservation survey around Rosh HaAyin, Community projects in Majdal 'Asqalan |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Israel Studies, Water Irrigation Technologies, Material Culture, Popular Religion, Building Technologies, Stone-Lime Industries |
| Institutions | Ashkelon Academic College |
Career
editSasson specializes in water irrigation technologies, material culture, popular religion, building technologies and the stone-lime industries in the southern Levant.[3][4][5][6]
According to reports in Haaretz and TheMarker, Sasson undertook the survey of Palestinian orchard houses (Arabic: Bayyarat) in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.[7][8] According to another report by Israeli news site Ynet, in 2007 Sasson initiated a historic preservation survey around Rosh HaAyin, documenting 150 historic sites, including the remains of a World War II British Armed Forces camp.[9] Sasson has participated in community projects to protect Majdal 'Asqalan's architectural heritage, protesting damages to the town's main mosque.[10]
According to later reports by local historian and blogger Yoav Avinion, Sasson participated in the study of Majdal Yaba's stone industries in Mandatory Palestine.[11] Haaretz also mentioned that Sasson worked as a consultant on major urban renewal projects, including in Gush Dan, Gedera and Ashkelon.[12][13]
In September 2023, Sasson published an edited volume commemorating 70 years to the establishment of the Israeli town of Sderot, near the Gaza Strip, just a few days before Palestinian militants overran Sderot during the opening offensive of the Israel-Hamas War.[14] Soon thereafter, he led Zionist commemoration activities recounting the story of Samson and the Philistines near Samson's hometown of Tsor'a.[15]
Selected works
edit- Safrai, Zeev, and Avi Sasson. Quarrying and Quarries in the Land of Israel. Elkana (2001).
- Sasson, Avi. "Historical geography of the Palestine southern coastal plain in the late Ottoman period–the Ashkelon region as a case study." Middle Eastern Studies 55.6 (2019): 974-1004.
- Sasson, Avi, and Eliav Taub. "The Israel Antiquities Authority and Atra Kadisha." Israel Affairs 27.3 (2021): 609-623.
- Sasson, Avi. "The historical archaeology of the Jewish stone industry in the twentieth century-Migdal Zedek (MajdalYaba) as a center of the stone industry." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 23 (2019): 609-627.
- Sasson, Avi. "The lime-burning plant at the Ali-Muntar Hill in Gaza." Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archaeological Society 18 (2000): 83-103.
- Sasson, Avraham. "Spiny Burnet as Industrial Fuel in Historical Palestine: Ecology and ethnography." Landscapes 22.1 (2021): 57-79.
References
edit- ^ מור, חן (2023-09-06). "דרך ארץ: מלגות בסך אלפי שקלים לסטודנטים באקדמית אשקלון". כאן דרום - אשקלון (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ "פרופ' אבי ששון". המכללה האקדמית אשקלון. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ Rina (2022-02-10). "סבילים והשקיית עוברי דרכים בארץ-ישראל – הממד הגאוגרפי-היסטורי". מכון ישראלי לארכיאולוגיה (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ "כבשני סיד בארץ ישראל". מכון ישראלי לארכיאולוגיה (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ "PDF.js viewer" (PDF). hamoreshet.org.il. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ "The Eccentric English Lady Who Introduced Archaeology to the Holy Land". Haaretz. Retrieved 2023-05-17.
- ^ "Tel Aviv's Crumbling 19th Century Well Houses Are About to Be Transformed". Haaretz. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ "חומה ובאר: תל אביב גילתה חלום נדל"ני מהמאה ה–19". TheMarker. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ הכהן, דוד (2007-06-19). "ראש העין: ישומרו מבנים בריטיים בצד גינות פרטיות". Ynet (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ לוי, דוד (2023-06-28). ""הרגשתי חורבן. זה מבנה בן מאות שנים": פגיעה במבנה עתיק במסגד החאן באשקלון". כאן דרום - אשקלון (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ "Yoaview | דרך האבן במגדל צדק". www.yoaview.com. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ "אל תשליכני: קיומו של ביה"ח הגריאטרי ליד גדרה בסכנה". הארץ (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-05-21.
- ^ "העבר, ההווה והעתיד של דרך ז'בוטינסקי". www.haaretz.co.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- ^ "70 שנה להקמת שדרות". www.news1.co.il (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ שפירא, ישראל (2024-01-18). "מזבח מנוח | זה המקום בו התבשרו ה." כיכר השבת (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-05-01.