 (Zipora, who died in 1982, became a sculptor in her own right late in her life, creating magnificent bas reliefs depicting the Shtetl life of her childhood).In 1939, Maurice Ascalon designed and created the enormous hammered repoussé copper relief sculpture of three figures, "The Toiler of the Soil, the Laborer and the Scholar", which adorned the façade of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion of the 1939 New York World's Fair.Ascalon was commissioned to create this work for the historically significant Pavilion which introduced the world to the concept of a modern Jewish state.