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]
Career
Sasson specializes in water irrigation technologies, material culture, popular religion, building technologies and the stone-lime industries in the southern Levant.[2][3][4]
According to reports in Haaretz and TheMarker, Sasson undertook the survey of Palestinian orchard houses (Arabic: Bayyarat) in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.[5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8] Haaretz also mentioned that Sasson worked as a consultant on major urban renewal projects, including in Gush Dan, Gedera and Ashkelon.[9][10]
Selected works
- 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
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.