Garment Worker by Judith Weller b.1937, Tel Aviv, Israel is a realistic rendering of a garment worker, wearing a yarmulke and hunched over a hand-operated sewing machine. The figure is modeled after the artist’s father, who was a machine operator in New York’s garment industry. The sculpture was created to commemorate the Jewish garment workers, the backbone of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century.